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Close Reading
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“Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!”
—Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 3
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“Every book has a skeleton hidden
between its covers. Your job
as an analytic reader is to find
it.”
Adler and Van Dore, 1940/1972
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“X-ray the book”
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Creating a Close Reading
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Creating a Close Reading
Use a short passage
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Creating a Close Reading
Use a short passage
Re-reading
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Creating a Close Reading
Use a short passage
Re-reading
“Read with a pencil”
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Creating a Close Reading
Use a short passage
Re-reading
“Read with a pencil”
Text-dependent questions
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Creating a Close Reading
Use a short passage
Re-reading
“Read with a pencil”
Text-dependent questions
Give students the chance to struggle a bit
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“Read like a detective, write like a reporter.”
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A Close Reading of “Salvador, Late or Early”
(Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, 1991)