Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom. Jeff Flygare

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      The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,

      Her traces of the smallest spider web,

      Her collars of the moonshine’s wat’ry beams,

      Her whip of cricket’s bone, the lash of film,

      Her waggoner a small grey-coated gnat,

      Not half so big as a round little worm

      Prick’d from the lazy finger of a maid.

      (Shakespeare, 1595/1997b, p. 1111)

      This would make a fine text for close reading. However, a teacher might decide to focus students’ attention on an even narrower section. This would require and enable them to look very closely at a short piece of text. The following is an example of an imagery-filled segment of the previous selection: