For my first time attending NCTE, or any national reading conference for that matter, I certainly got lucky on my first day. After being enlightened and entertained by Ruth Culham, as detailed in my third and fourth NCTE reviews on mentor texts and literary borrowing, I was fortunate enough to follow up with a lecture by Nancy Frey (http://fisherandfrey.com/), a renowned expert on close reading.
To be even more honest, I felt that I had a strong handle on close reading before heading into this conference. My school has been a partner with Roosevelt University, which turned me onto the book Notice and Note, an excellent source for how to teach close reading of fictional work, specifically through six signposts. Additionally, I had developed my own close reading annotation key and practiced close reading for nearly two years, so I felt that I was hardly a newbie.
Well, I couldn’t have been any more wrong as Frey opened my eyes (in very good ways) to making the close reading process simpler yet still challenging for my students and more intentional on my end.
With that said, here are 10 must-have close reading takeaways from Frey’s great lecture at NCTE.
To be even more honest, I felt that I had a strong handle on close reading before heading into this conference. My school has been a partner with Roosevelt University, which turned me onto the book Notice and Note, an excellent source for how to teach close reading of fictional work, specifically through six signposts. Additionally, I had developed my own close reading annotation key and practiced close reading for nearly two years, so I felt that I was hardly a newbie.
Well, I couldn’t have been any more wrong as Frey opened my eyes (in very good ways) to making the close reading process simpler yet still challenging for my students and more intentional on my end.
With that said, here are 10 must-have close reading takeaways from Frey’s great lecture at NCTE.
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