Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

05.14.15 A Reading Reconsidered Excerpt: Layered Reading

Colleen Driggs, Erica Woolway and I are busy wrapping up the manuscript of our new book on literacy, Reading Reconsidered.  We’ll put it to bed in a few weeks’ time and you should see it on shelves next winter.  In the meantime here’s an excerpt from the chapter on Close Reading.  The topic is something called…