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Snow, Catherine; O'Connor, Catherine – Journal of Education, 2016
One reaction to the Common Core State Standards is a new emphasis on "close reading," an approach to teaching comprehension that requires students to extract meaning from text by examining how language is used in a passage. The intent is to strengthen their ability to learn from complex text independently and thus enhance college and…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Reading Instruction