context: A slow motion replay is played of him jumping into the water. A person is on a slack line and doing trucks. the person
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context: Two girls in karate class bow forward and then to each other before practice. The girl dodges an attack by taking a knee while blocking a hit. the karate students
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context: How to teach close reading
Closely read the text yourself.
To teach close reading, it is important that you first do a close reading of a text yourself. Extrapolate all of the details you can that are both directly stated and implied in the text, determine the apparent audience and the writer's purpose.
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Make a list of the details you have gleaned from the text so that you can later compare your list to the student's list in order to model adequate detail from a close reading. For example, you may use the following passage from dr.