Falling in Love with Close Reading Book Study: Chapter 4

Welcome back for Week 4 / Chapter 4 of our Close Reading Book Study! I hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!

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This chapter is about Close Reading for Structure. The chapter begins with describing organizational choices. There are three main ways of talking about structure:

1. Teach students to talk about the genre as a structure.
2. Teach students to talk about the location of parts within a larger whole.
3. Teach students to talk about the techniques an author uses when structuring parts of the text.

As many of us know, in each grade level, structure is written all over the standards. Not only in reading, but writing too. This chapter talks about introducing this to students through a variety of media sources. Specifically, the structure of video games. Which I thought, what a great idea, you know they know every level of each game these days. Then bring the connection to a narrative piece from there. Then the chapter went into to analyzing structure & theme together. After that the chapter went into discussing how to analyze structure in informational texts. I made a big connection to this part of the chapter because my close reading experiences are with informational text.