Editing Close reading (section)

=== Strategies ===
Today,{{when|date=May 2025}} as most states have adopted the Common Core Standards,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.corestandards.org/standards-in-your-state/|title=Standards in Your State {{!}} Common Core State Standards Initiative|website=www.corestandards.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-02-07|archive-date=2018-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118182421/http://www.corestandards.org/standards-in-your-state/|url-status=dead}}</ref> there is an increasing number of resources designed to help teachers instruct and implement close-reading strategies in their classrooms. In 2012, Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst published ''Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading'', which established six "signposts" that alert readers to significant moments in a work of literature and encourage students to read closely.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/e04693/noticenote_flyer.pdf|title=Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading|last=Beers|first=Kylene|website=Heinemann}}</ref>

Another resource, developed by Beth Burke ([[National Board Certified Teacher|NBCT]]) for the ''[[Tampa Bay Times]]'' NIE (Newspaper in Education), presents the steps involved in close reading and how to [[Lev Vygotsky|scaffold]] the strategies for students. She recommends using the "gradual release model"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nieonline.com/tbtimes/downloads/CCSS_reading.pdf|title=Closing in on Close Reading|last=Burke|first=Beth|website=Tampa Bay Times}}</ref> in instruction, beginning by modeling a close reading in front of the class, then having students work on the strategy in groups before attempting it alone.

Additional ways students are supported in close-reading instruction include providing [[graphic organizer]]s that help them group their ideas with textual evidence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edu.wyoming.gov/downloads/assessments/2014/close-reading-graphic-organizer.pdf|title=Close Reading Graphic Organizer|website=State of Wyoming}}</ref> Many other educational resources and guides to close reading exist in order to help students of all levels and in particular, close reading poetry. For example, see The Close Reading of Poetry: A Practical Introduction and Guide to Explication.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.uvic.ca/hrd/closereading/|title=The Close Reading of Poetry: Introduction: Poking and Probing with Questions|website=web.uvic.ca}}</ref>