Close reading is thoughtful, critical analysis of a text that focuses on significant details or
patterns in order to develop a deep, precise understanding of the text’s form, craft, or meanings.
Close reading includes:
This video gives six analysis strategies to help students conduct a close read of both fiction and nonfiction.
1. What are the six signposts the narrator describes in the video?
2. What literary term would apply to Contrasts and Contradictions ?
3. What three phrases clue a reader in to an Aha Moment?
4. What is a good way to note an Aha Moment?
5. What will the Tough Questions phrases express?
6. What is the setting surrounding the Words of the Wiser?
7. What is the purpose of the sage character?
8. What three literary terms are involved with Again and Again?
9. Why would an author include a Memory Moment?
10. Why are these signposts important when close reading a text?