3-5 Grade Close Reading Anchor Charts
What does “Close Reading” look like in 4
th
Grade?
1
st
Reading – What does the text say? RL 1, 2, 3 RI 1, 2, 3
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Refer to details when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing
inferences
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Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details
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Describe character, setting, or event drawing on specific details
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Determine the main idea and explain how it is supported by key details
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Summarize the text
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Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or
technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information
2
nd
Reading
–
How does the text work? RL 4, 5, 6 RI 4, 5, 6
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Determine meaning of words and phrases, including those that allude to
significant characters found in mythology
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Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose
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Refer to structural elements of poems/drama when writing/speaking
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Compare/contrast point of view; know differences between first and third
person narrations
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Determine the meaning of academic and domain specific words
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Describe overall structure of a text
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Compare/contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same
event/topic
3
rd
Reading
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What does it mean? RL 7, 8, 9 RI 7, 8, 9
What is its value? How does it connect to other texts?
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Make connections between text and visual/oral presentation of text
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Compare/contrast treatment of themes, topics, patterns of events
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Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively and explain
how it contributes to understanding text
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Explain how authors use reasons/evidence to support points in text
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Integrate information from two texts on same topic to write/speak knowledgeably
Read like a
detective!
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