IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
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.

OUT: 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.

IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
The man sucks on the hookah again, blows out smoke, sucks it back in and this time just blows out smoke. the man

OUT: puts the hookah back in his mouth to suck in more smoke, then blows out another string of smoke rings, then points to the camera and starts talking.

IN: Write the next sentence in this paragraph:
A girl does flips across a mat. The mat is black and red. Several girls watch her and clap. she

OUT:
then does some backflips.