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Write 3 page- Close Reading Activity Summary and Reflection that includes the following below:

1. Provide a description of the text from grades 4-6 you selected for your Close Reading Activity and include an explanation of why you selected this text based on text-complexity principles and the characteristics of your literacy learners in grades 4–6. Be sure to discuss the pre-assessment data you collected.

2. Explain how your students responded to the text during the writing section of the activity. Also, include an explanation of why you chose this type of writing instruction/method. Provide specific examples from the activity and include student work samples as an appendix to your paper.

3. Explain how you developed students’ metacognition related to the selected text.

4. List the text dependent questions from learning resource and explain why you created these questions.

5. Explain conclusions that you can draw from this lesson that will inform your instructional practice for grades 4-6.

Helpful Reference

Ness, M. (2013). Moving students’ questions out of the parking lot. The Reading Teacher, 67(5), 369–373.

Dalton, B. (2013). Engaging children in close reading: Multimodal commentaries and illustration remix. The Reading Teacher, 66(8), 642–649.

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Burke, B. (n.d.). A close look at close reading: Scaffolding students with complex texts. Retrieved May 15, 2016, from http://nieonline.com/tbtimes/downloads/CCSS_reading.pdf 

Common Core State Standards Initiative. (2012c). English language arts standards: Standard 10: Range, quality, & complexity: Measuring text complexity: Three factors. Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/standard-10-range-quality-complexity/measuring-text-complexity-three-factors