PROFESSIONAL LEARNING RESOURCE! Close Reading and Response Strategies

Close Reading is a proven instructional strategy to increase student engagement and comprehension of complex text, and improve written and oral responses. However many educators do not know how to teach close reading to their students, or implement it effectively in their own classrooms. Close Reading takes time. Close Reading takes several mini lessons for students to learn each part of the close reading process correctly BEFORE they can complete Close Reading effectively, and definitely before they can complete close reading independently. This professional learning resource is intended for teachers to learn the Close Reading process step by step, including a printable go-to Teacher's Guide, as well as effective response strategies to incorporate within the process.

I have created this professional learning presentation specifically with the classroom teacher in mind. It can be used for whole staff learning, within a professional learning community, or individually. Everything contained in this presentation are research-based instructional practices and based on the theories of learning for the purpose of helping to improve educators' instructional practice and increase their students' success for standards mastery and performance on state assessments.

The Close Reading process and the written and oral response strategies included in this professional learning presentation can be used in a variety of grade-levels with some modifications to meet varying development learning levels. Because of this, I have included a two versions in this product for you! There is a READY TO USE version you can download as a PDF, with Facilitator Notes ready to download as well. There is also a link to download an EDITABLE version in Google Slides. You will need to make a copy first for your Google Drive to edit.

DISCLAIMER: If you do EDIT this presentation, you risk compromising the effectiveness of the professional learning as it is intended in its entirety.

**NOTE: The examples included in the presentation are linked for purchase from other TpT creators, which are shown on the final slides of the presentation. I have given those creators credit within this presentation, and if you wish to use the example resources, please purchase those directly through those creators.