Close-reading strategies help students develop the literacy and critical-thinking skills essential for the rest of their lives. Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom offers high school and middle school educators extensive guidance on how to introduce close-reading strategies to students and help them improve their reading comprehension skills and critical thinking. Learn how to select close-reading examples and passages, elicit deeper question formation, facilitate positive classroom discussion, and assess your students' reading comprehension skills and literacy progress. Use research-based close-reading instruction strategies to increase student literacy and critical-thinking skills: Understand the importance of close reading, pre-reading, and post-reading activities; Learn how to choose appropriate literary or informational texts for close reading; Pass on tools necessary for literary analysis and annotating text; Develop thought-provoking questions and discussion that deepen text analysis and reading comprehension skills; Assess students' creative- and critical-thinking skills.

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Research and Theory -- Chapter 2: Prereading -- Chapter 3: Reading Twice and Annotating -- Chapter 4: Generating Questions and Reading Analytically -- Chapter 5: Discussing as a Class or Analyzing Individually, and Using Processing Activities -- Chapter 6: Planning and Assessing Close Reading -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Answers to Comprehension Questions -- Appendix B: Extended Examples of Close Reading.