Close Reading Strategies

MMSD has an overview of core practices for secondary literacy. There are some tailored to middle school and others tailored to high school.

Some MMSD schools have shared materials around close reading.

1. O'Keefe Middle shares a lesson design template, among others related to close reading strategies across the disciplines.
2. Secondary Social Studies includes a outline of a lesson to include close reading.
3. West High School close reading lesson template and a DRAFT of a rubric to help review the lesson.

Here are a few links to thorough lessons focused around close reading:
1. Middle level non-fiction and fiction
2. David Coleman gives an overview of how a lesson using close reading strategies might be taught, and why it shouldn't be taught in the more common ways.

And a couple posts about what close reading is and some background on it...
1. Grant Wiggins