Hydes Close Reading Initiative

Hyde School: Close Reading as a Tool for All Classrooms

Time
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Agenda Item/Description

Expected Outcomes

Welcome & Introduction of Learning Targets Staff Target Tracker

I can explain the importance of teaching literacy in my classroom
I can identify the parts of planning and implementing a close reading lesson
I can plan a detailed close reading lesson
I can annotate a complex text
I can craft Higher Order Thinking (HOT) questions
I can select complex texts that are appropriate for close reading
I can model close reading
Why Does Literacy Matter?
Understand the importance of
Wearing a Student/Teacher Hat
being able to close read a complex
text and how difficult it is for some
Reading through a complex text
individuals.
Table Talk Discussion:
o What is the main idea of the
passage?
o How would you feel if your job or
grade depended on your
successful identification of the
main idea?
o What tools did you use to read
through the text?
o Relate your experience to that of a
struggling student in your class
how might he/she feel?
View Video about the ability to read
complex text Common Core
Brief Discussion:
o What skill is the most
important for our students to
master to be successful in
college and beyond?
How Can this Work at Hyde? Guided
Begin creating a shared
Discovery
understanding of how close reading
works in a classroom as well as
View videos of teachers doing close
identify the possible challenges
reading lessons at Hyde:
implementation might pose.
o John Adamovich
o Lindsey Flannick
Note-catcher what are key pieces of
close reading lesson from what you
have seen?
90 second turn and talk to discuss
o Whats the teacher doing?
o How will it help the students

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read better?
Debrief- Share opportunities and
challenges in small groups
o On poster board, predict the
challenges of close reading
Story Crafting - pilot group talks about
the good and bad of implementation
close reading

Break
Time to Put on Your Student Hats
Gary Auroras US History Class
Modeling
o Go through Close Reading
Lesson: The Declaration of
Independence
Revisit the challenges what has
changed?
o Reference the notes on the
poster board
Show video of Garys class
o Whats the teacher doing?
o How will it help students
become better readers?
Give out Instruction Rubric filled out
by Gary (if Gary does not have these
blank copies)
With partners or small groups, discuss
what information is found in the
Instruction Rubric
Short whole group debrief
o What are you initial reactions
to being a student in a CR
lesson?
o Return to challenges poster
board new news?
o How did this lesson look when
our students were involved?
Reflection
Back to the Learning Target Tracker Where am I now?
Final Thoughts
Exit Slip
o What are you excited about and
want to try in your classes?
o What do you still have questions
about?

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Experience close reading from a

students perspective as well as
from a teachers perspective while
continuing to create a shared
understanding of close reading.

Identify where we are as individuals

as we approach this strategy.
Equity of Voice

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Exit Slip
What opportunities and challenges do you see in the instructional rubric?

In regards to Close Reading - what are you excited about and want to try in your classes?

What do you still have questions about?

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