AVReading January
--> Looking at this month’s Spotlight Common Core Standard #5, you begin to see the complexity of our new notion of reading. As mentioned before, our new conceptualization of reading moves beyond just “what the text says” and “what the text suggests” to “how the text is constructed” and “how the construction of the text affects the meaning.” This requires a great deal of analysis and thought. It first implies that students understanding the literal and inferential meaning of a text, and now must examine it for how the author put it together. The fifth standard reads, “Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.” For the most part, I believe this standard will belong to the realms of English and Language Arts classes, where the close reading of texts is more of the predominant focus. That’s not t...