I’m NobodyEmily Dickinson

Close Read

Why Close Reading?• Fisher and Frey (2012) explain that questions should progress from

establishing general understanding to considering key details, vocabulary/text structure, author's purpose, inferring, and forming arguments. Through rereadings, all question levels must be addressed. – After the first reading, literal-level questions promote general understanding and

focus on key textual details so students grasp the main idea. Examples include "Who's the main character? What information in the text lets you know this is the main idea?"

– The second reading fosters deeper thinking, focusing attention on vocabulary, text structure, and author's purpose. Questions ask students to think about the author's decisions, to consider the purpose. Examples include "How do the words influence the book's meaning? How does the story change from beginning to end?"

– On the third rereading, students answer questions requiring inferences and the formation of opinions and arguments about the text, using textual evidence for support. Examples include "What would logically happen next? What clues support your thinking? Do you agree/disagree with the author? Provide evidence for your answers."

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Vocabulary

• Bog• Livelong• Simile• Point of View• Metaphor

Text QuestionsAfter First Read

• What is something that caught your attention?• Who is the speaker?• What does the speaker value?• What figure of speech does the author use to

compare a famous person to a frog?• What does the bog symbolize?• Tone?

Purpose2nd Read

• What is the author’s purpose? What evidence do you have to support it? What facts did the author give and how was it explained?

• Main Idea? What evidence do you have to support it? Elaborate

Synthesizing Ideas

• Why do we need to know this?

• How will this help me?

• What message did you take away from reading this text? Why?

• Which passage of the text would you consider to be the most significant and why?

• What would happen if it were rewritten as a story?