{"id":138,"date":"2016-09-25T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T03:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/literacy\/?p=138"},"modified":"2016-09-25T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T03:00:17","slug":"moving-toward-close-reading-in-content-area-classrooms-where-do-i-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/literacy\/2016\/09\/25\/moving-toward-close-reading-in-content-area-classrooms-where-do-i-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Toward Close Reading in Content-Area Classrooms: Where Do I Start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many content-area teachers, teaching&#8221;reading&#8221; is a challenging charge. We&#8217;ve spent much of our practice using texts as a vehicle through which content knowledge is built. The acceptance that, for many of our students, that &#8220;vehicle&#8221; is not accessible, can leave us a bit baffled about how to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>One small first step in helping student access texts in our content-areas is to simply change our pacing and questioning. Assign students one paragraph at a time to read in class instead of a section. When students finish reading, first ask, &#8220;What roadblocks did you encounter? Where did you get struck or have to slow down? What still doesn&#8217;t make sense?&#8221; Then open the answering of those questions to the class or coach students through a process to find meaning in a word or phrase.<\/p>\n<p>In seeking first to clarify smaller chunks of text, we enable more students to unlock key ideas, we begin to anticipate\u00a0the struggles our students face, and we build a safety and system of support that will ultimately enable us to go farther faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many content-area teachers, teaching&#8221;reading&#8221; is a challenging charge. We&#8217;ve spent much of our practice using texts as a vehicle through which content knowledge is built. The acceptance that, for many of our students, that &#8220;vehicle&#8221; is not accessible, can leave us a bit baffled about how to proceed. One small first step in helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/literacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/literacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/literacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/literacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/literacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/literacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/literacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/literacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/literacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}