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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The new push in the CCSS is close reading of text which means that students basically dissect small portions of a text.  It might be a page for older students or a paragraph or two for younger kids.  I don't think it means they don't read the entire text but they sure will be spending a long time on one small section.  Personally, I think this is ridiculous for students younger than 7th or 8th grade.  I didn't dissect a text until high school and college.  When kids are not reading on grade level and they are spending time doing this, something is wrong.  If they want students to be "lifelong learners" who want to read on their own, this is not the way to go about it.  Kids will think reading is a chore and will avoid it at all costs.[/quote]

I'd be interested to hear more about why you think that close reading isn't appropriate until 7th grade.  It's something I've used informally as a parent (e.g. when reading bedtime stories with a 3 year old and rather than reading 2 or 3 books, spending the 20 minutes, talking in detail about one photo on one page of a backhoe, reading all the text, connecting it back to the picture, comparing what's in the book with the backhoe we saw when we walked to the zoo last week,  OR listening to Harry Potter on audiobook in the car with a 9 year old, stopping it at a crucial point, and having a long conversation about a single moment in time, rewinding to listen to it again, taking and defending a point of view etc . . .).  As a teacher of young kids, we use close reading techniques as well from a very young age.

I'm not sure how creating enjoyable experiences where kids delve into texts to ask and answer questions discourages them from being "lifelong learners"?  [/quote]

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