These could be images, objects, specific words or phrases, ideas, relations. Identify all the details or collections details that seem significant, troubling, important, or intriguing to you.Don’t worry that it seems “out of context”-it is, and this may help you notice details that you wouldn’t notice if you were just reading for plot. Read the fragment of the story I’ve given you at least three times and very carefully.Sample Exercise: Close-Reading Textual Fragments By taking a passage out of context, students can be forced to look much closer at the rhetorical “clues” provided in the text. Students can work individually or in groups, responding to guided questions about readings, or they can use the formatting and highlighting features of Word to visually ‘mark-up’ a passage. Option 1: Developing Close Reading Skills We have included a list of some of the most popular options here, but this list is certainly not exhaustive. Word provides a writing instructor with a wide range of ways to integrate word processing into the classroom.
