Close Reading Strategies Worksheet: Annotating Complex Texts

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  • 6 pages total

  • skill explanation page

  • 4 practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

  • 6 pages total

  • skill explanation page

  • 4 practice exercises

  • 1 answer key page

Additional Info:

  1. Difficulty Level: Medium to Difficult

  2. Skill Focus: Annotating complex texts to identify literary devices, thematic connections, rhetorical strategies, and author’s purpose.

  3. Standards:

  • CCSS.RL.8.1: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly and inferences drawn from the text.

  • CCSS.RL.8.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development.

  • CEFR B2: Can understand the main ideas of complex texts on both concrete and abstract topics and identify rhetorical strategies and author’s intent.