Close-reading strategies help students develop the literacy and critical-thinking skills essential for the rest of their lives. Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom offers high school and middle school educators extensive guidance on how to introduce close-reading strategies to students and help them improve their reading comprehension skills and critical thinking. Learn how to select close-reading examples and passages, elicit deeper question formation, facilitate positive classroom discussion, and assess your students' reading comprehension skills and literacy progress. Use research-based close-reading instruction strategies to increase student literacy and critical-thinking IntroductionChapter 1: Research and TheoryChapter 2: PrereadingChapter 3: Reading Twice and AnnotatingChapter 4: Generating Questions and Reading AnalyticallyChapter 5: Discussing as a Class or Analyzing Individually, and Using Processing ActivitiesChapter 6: Planning and Assessing Close ReadingEpilogueAppendix Answers to Comprehension QuestionsAppendix Extended Examples of Close Reading