An Introduction to Close Reading is a self-paced, asynchronous Canvas course designed to support you in better understanding how to integrate the close reading process into your instruction to support your elementary through high school students in developing critical literacy skills necessary in today's world. The English Language Arts Common Core State Standards require our students to engage in regular reading of complex texts and to provide written and spoken responses grounded in evidence from the text. One way to accomplish this both in elementary and secondary content classrooms is through close reading.

In this professional development workshop, participants will:

• Learn the elements of effective close reading lessons
• Analyze texts to determine if they are “close-read worthy”
• Use their grade-level state literacy standards to craft text-dependent questions for a text