Beth’s Reviews > Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading > Status Update

In the section of the textbook, the author is describing the signposts of good, quality close reading: "Close reading should suggest close attention to the text; close attention to the relevant experience, thought, and memory of the reader...and close attentions to the interactions among those elements" (Beers & Probst). In other words, close reading requires the readers focused commitment to understanding the text.