Excellent Reading Responses and Close Readings or Explication de texte

Close Reading Techniques

• Close Reading or explication de texte: 12 steps to recovery of literary awareness
  • Simplified close reading techniques--in case the one above makes you feel intimidated at first.
• Key Points to Remember When Writing Reading Responses
• Avoid these common errors
• Rules for using quotations in an essay
  • Learn to blend quotations into your own writing.
  • Additional guides for blending quotations

    

• Reading Response on Harry Potter
• Reading Response on Harry Potter
• Reading Response on Holes
• A Close Reading--explication-- on Skellig
• Very short examples of Reading Responses
• Student Responses to Parrot in the Oven
• Charlotte's Web Reading Response
• Reading Response to Bridge to Terabithia
• Reading Response to Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Jumping the Nail Reading Response
• Catcher in the Rye Reading Response--Grant Maher'screative
  • Richard Cartoni's RR to Catcher in the Rye
  • Grant Maher's RR to Catcher in the Rye
  • Allison Moss-Fritch's RR to Catcher in the Rye
  • Patricia Erisson Johnson's RR to Catcher in the Rye

    
    Explications

• Explication of Out of the Dust
• Explication of Dry Bone from the Sea
• Example of a 5-page literary analysis on Paula Fox's The Slave Dancer
• Example of a literary analysis for Jacob Have I Loved