PLANNING FOR CLOSE READING

Text Title: Friendship- Vener Santos

Text Complement Level: Easy
Steps in Close Reading

1. Read the text and text

related questions

2. Make a claim

Teachers Preparations

Instruction to Students

Guide Question:
1. What do you think is
the poem all about?
Read the poem Friendship
2. How can friendship
by Vener Santos and answer
grow?
3. What is the essence of the questions that follow
understanding a
literary work?
Using your answers from
question, what is the
Friend will always be there
essence of understanding a
literary work?

3. Mark the text that is

evidence for a claim

Friends will grow old

Using sticky notes mark the

evidences that supports the
claim

4. Explain why/ how

marked text supports
claim

From the word itself, grow

old means always be there

Through graphic organizer,

explain how the evidences
support the claim

5. Get feedback on the

text evidence and
reason

Cooperative Learning Style

Using the poem for two

voices