[Xmca-l] Fwd: Text Dependent Questions, Close Reading, Thematic Units and the CCSS

[Shirley Franklin]

Some of this may be useful to those interested in reading processes.
Shirley

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> From: The Center for Development and Learning <learn@cdl.org>
> Date: 4 September 2013 16:17:48 BDT
> To: s.franklin@dsl.pipex.com
> Subject: Text Dependent Questions,  Close Reading, Thematic Units  
> and the CCSS
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> September 3, 2013
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> questions, close  reading and thematic Units. The first article,  
> posits that text dependency is too low a standard. The second  
> addresses using multi-texts in close reading. The third debates the  
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> Text Dependency is
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> To Multi-Text Or Not to
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