Falling in Love With Close Reading by Chris Lehman
Falling in Love with Shut Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts—and Life
Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts
(Heinemann, 2013 – Learn more)
Reviewed by Katie Gordon
I ♥ Falling in Love with Close Reading past Chris Lehman and Kate Roberts. I remember you will, as well.
Last summer, I didn't even want to hear about close reading whatever more. Every session at every literacy event I had been to for the past year claimed to offer tips and tricks for this centerpiece of the Common Core.
I had heard about the iv corners of the text, but worried that the reader was lost in the process. I had seen graphic organizers, and worksheets, and the magic questions, but they all seemed to be more about the volume than the reading. It didn't quite fit my philosophy of pedagogy reading.
I had close reading fatigue.
As a co-author of Pathways to the Common Core with Lucy Calkins, Chris Lehman has serious Common Cadre street cred. And every bit part of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project staff, both he and co-author Kate Roberts are associated with some of the best literacy didactics in the world. While center school teachers may be less familiar with Teachers Higher, TC is a "get-to source" for many elementary educators looking for innovations in reading and writing instruction. TC = trust.
So when I first heard that Lehman was going to be releasing a book on close reading, I didn't immediately dismiss it. A colleague directed me to Lehman'due south blog-a-thon on close reading, and I was hooked as I read the insights shared by Lehman and Roberts. As the release date approached, I pre-ordered my copy.
Several things I love most this book
I love that the authors come across close reading as much a tool for our lives as a tool for books. Roberts described in one of her blog posts how dear brings u.s. in close. She explained how well we know the ones we love the most, because we've taken time to observe them closely and repeatedly, and even tiny details reveal nuance.
Falling in Love with Close Reading builds on this thought. The routines it establishes are elementary, even so they help u.s.a. as readers to abound sophisticated ideas from the patterns nosotros observe in the details of a text.
Other experts who present shut reading have shared rich-sounding discussions over daunting texts, simply you have to wonder whether any students could continue that species of shut reading without the teacher at their side asking the questions. This book presents a view of close reading education that aims starting time and foremost for independence.
By applying a variety of lenses to our reading, nosotros can read closely for a variety of purposes in a variety of texts. Once students know the lenses, they can have them to any text they see, whether that text is a vocal, a novel, an editorial, or a political advertisement. Our students volition be able to read without united states.
The authors nowadays clear examples of each lens every bit it would wait when applied to literary and informational texts. They describe this shut reading work as it applies to complex, yet highly engaging multimedia "texts." Betwixt these covers I find the resources I would need for teaching new media as well as the classics.
A book that will stretch to grades 3-4
While the volume is intended to depict close reading for students in grades v-8, I am finding that with some thought about text choice and consideration most language friendly to younger students, these routines are unproblematic enough to work with grades iii and 4 equally well. (Note: Lehman and Roberts are working on a version for the lower grades to exist released in the futurity.)
The skillful news is that I have establish a resource that is consistent with my beliefs about reading instruction. The better news is that this work has been field tested with many, many students. The best news is that I'm learning about the invisible processes I use as a reader so that I can reveal them to students for whom they are non automatic.
Considering of Falling in Dear with Close Reading, I have the tools to teach students and to back up teachers in the do of shut reading. It is something I can teach them to practise for themselves instead of something that will exist washed to them.
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As an unproblematic reading consultant and double-decker, Katie Gordon splits her time betwixt "building the reading capacity of my students and the instruction capacity of my colleagues." She comes to coaching from ten years in middle and loftier school classrooms, during which time "I struggled to notice the answers for the challenges my own students were facing." She lives in Connecticut.
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