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Students get better at analysis with practice. Whether they’re trying to make sense of a football play or the design of a football stadium, repetition is a key to developing analytical skill.

In approaching texts—whether the “text” is a paragraph, a poem, an advertisement, or a video—key skills in analysis are close reading and observation. Close reading doesn’t come naturally to many students; practice helps move students past a “read and done” mentality to a habit of rereading and digging deeper.

To give students practice in close reading, try this:

 Present a short text to the class—for instance, a magazine ad, an opening paragraph, or a commercial.

 Have students work in small groups to select key details—words from a text, literal descriptions of a picture, or patterns—that they think might be meaningful. Each group should list around ten.

 Combine the words from all groups on the board. Then, ask students to work with a partner to draw an inference from the list. What overarching emotions or ideas emerge from the list as a whole?

 As a class, share and discuss the inferences. Could you create a thesis statement about the meaning of the piece from these insights? If so, what might it be?