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Teacher Strategies - Close and Critical Reading
===Getting students to read using a critical lens helps them begin the process of delving deeper into complex text. By adapting Steve Peha's work, we have students work in pairs to begin looking at text as both a reader and a writer. After reading a piece of text, the students discuss it first as a reader and then as a writer. Each student is responsible for part of the analysis as either a critical reader or critical writer. The students take turns looking through the eyes of a reader or writer. We have put a "critical spin" on the six-traits of writing. Below is an example of a piece of text with ideas to spark both analysis and discussion. Of course, not ALL categories work for each piece of text.===