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Close Reading
Adapted by
Diane Wolfarth
Description:
When you read something slowly and carefully,
word by word and line by line, you are "close
reading." In close reading, your goal is to
examine one part of a reading in great detail to
make sure you understand its full meaning.
Using the Strategy
Close reading works best with short readings.
Read the Passage
Examine the passage you selected word by word.
Ask yourself questions and record your thoughts
in the Double-entry Journal
21st Century Skills, Rethinking
How Students Learn
•New (+)
•Reread (rr)
•Question (?)
•Connection (___)
•Wow (!)
•Empathy (^)
•Visualized (V)
•Research (*)
•Infer (I)
•Clues (=)
Informational text
1. Plant: Heterotroph, selffeeder, makes own food from
the sun (examples: trees, algae,
pumpkins)
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Word
Annotations/Notes
1. Plants
plant
/plænt, plɑnt/ Show Spelled [plant, plahnt] Show IPA
noun 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms
that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of
photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose,
including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification
schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain singlecelled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or
photosynthesis.
2. an herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with a tree or a shrub.
3. a seedling or a growing slip, especially one ready for transplanting.
2. make
Quotes
Paraphrase
(restated in my own sentence structure
and words)
1.Plants make their own food through the
process of photosynthesis.
Organisms build food molecules step by
step using light energy, water and carbon
dioxide.