“Today’s task is to put it all together—to select a piece of text to determine the teaching points, to establish the purpose, and to have the questions ready for the close reading that students are going to do with a complex piece of text. This is our last practice before a habit is built of engaging students in reading complex text and learning how to do this on their own.” –Dr. Doug Fisher
On Day 29, Dr. Fisher guides teachers to pull everything together and plan a close reading lesson. He walks through the importance of all phases of a close reading lesson, building on what has been covered in the previous 28 sessions.
The final task for this series is to put it all together and plan a close reading lesson. Review previous videos/sessions and reflections from your Learning Log to map out your lesson, focusing on the following steps:
After engaging your students in a close reading lesson, consider using the Learning Log to reflect on how your students performed and what you learned.
Use this rubric designed by Dr. Fisher to assess the qualitative factors of text complexity to ensure a reader-text match and to inform areas of text that need instruction.
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.
