Fully resourced and differentiated 1 hour lesson in which students learn how to independently close read a challenging text.
This lesson has been designed to be reused multiple times as it teaches students the skills that they need to independently close read any new text to them.
Easily adaptable to all abilities as you can differentiate the difficulty of the text given (example texts and teacher text selection advice included).
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Easy to understand. I love that it is reusable! I use articles so often. Thanks!
Great resource! I was really impressed with how clear it was to introduce students to close reading independently and used it with a BBC article I found online. I'll definitely end up using this again
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