[header] How to teach close reading [title] Closely read the text yourself. [step] 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. 
[substeps] 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.