“Students need to develop their understanding of how texts work so they can analyze those texts and produce their own texts.” –Dr. Doug Fisher
On Day 20, Dr. Fisher focuses on crafting structural questions that will help students develop their understanding about how texts work. In this session, you’ll also hear from a teacher as she speaks about the value of structural questions during the close reading process.
Revisit the text from the previous session.
Craft five or six text-dependent questions at the structural level that will require students to go back into the text and think about how the author put the text together. List the structural questions in this template.
Invite students to engage in a close reading of the text using the structural questions to focus their reading. Respond to students’ needs and change/adjust as you move through the process.
After you engage students in a close reading using the structural questions, consider using the Learning Log to reflect on the process.
This template can be used across multiple sessions to help guide the development of literal, structural, and inferential questions, and progression into inspirational tasks.
This log can be used to capture new learnings as you develop close reading techniques.
