Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome

    • Course Introduction

    • Interactive Notebook

    • Continuing Education Information

    • Pre-test

    • A Quick Review of Text Complexity
  • 2

    What is Close Reading?

    • Section Introduction

    • What is in a Close Read?

    • Personal Research

    • Read and Reflect

    • Close Reading Model

    • Your Turn: Phase 1

    • Let's Review

    • Your Turn: Phase 2

    • Let's Review

    • Your Turn: Phase 3

    • Let's Review

    • Stop and Jot

    • Section Wrap-up
  • 3

    Culminating Tasks

    • Section Introduction

    • Plan with the End In Mind

    • Levels of Thinking

    • Let's Review

    • Developing Tasks

    • Share Your Answers!

    • Reflection

    • Section Wrap-up
  • 4

    Text-dependent Questions

    • Section Introduction

    • Prompts for Three Levels of Thinking

    • What are Text-dependent Questions?

    • Writing TDQs

    • Share Your Answers!

    • Section Wrap-up
  • 5

    Planning for Close Reading

    • Section Introduction

    • Putting it All Together

    • Sharing Our Work
  • 6

    Closing

    • Closing Exercise

    • Next Steps

    • Course Feedback

    • Post-test

    • Reference List