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First off, is sterilisation in the US even new?
As we've discussed before, the Fed's interest on excess reserves (IOER) policy can and has been construed by many as a type of sterilisation policy in its own right. Read more
First off, is sterilisation in the US even new?
As we've discussed before, the Fed's interest on excess reserves (IOER) policy can and has been construed by many as a type of sterilisation policy in its own right. Read more
US money market funds have return to lending to French banks with force, owning $8.6bn of short-term loans issued by the institutions in January, up from $3.2bn in December, Bloomberg Risk reports. The figure is still far below the $78bn of French bank exposure held by money market funds at the end of 2010, but marks the first increase in lending in six months. Societe Generale's funding from the sector rose to $3.4bn, a tenfold increase. Money market funds pulled dollar funding from French lenders as the eurozone debt crisis worsened in autumn, but have return on hopes that the ECB's three-year euro liquidity will aid the banking system.
In the first installment of US money market funds versus the eurozone, the funds were seen fleeing the continent as quickly as possible, leaving all sorts of funding chaos in their wake.
In part two, the flight of the US money market funds seems to have intensified, but the outflows have been more clearly redirected… namely into Australian, Canadian and Japanese banks instead. Read more
US money market funds have begun moving back into European bank paper, a sign that central bank efforts to backstop key institutions are improving risk appetite, says the FT. This past week, money market funds bought French bank paper with maturities as long as one month, as well as small amounts of Spanish bank paper, the newspaper says. The funds also bought longer-dated UK, Dutch and Scandinavian bank paper, up to six-month maturities. Notes issued by US banks with foreign parents rose $6bn to $152bn and foreign domiciled bank notes outstanding rose nearly $3bn to $133bn, according to figures from the Federal Reserve. Last year, money market funds were sellers of many European banks' short-term commercial paper as worries grew about the repercussions of a possible European sovereign default. That was a critical factor in market anxiety, as the highly rated funds' $2.7tn in liquid assets are a key source of dollar funding.
That chart is from the latest Fitch Ratings report of the biggest US prime money market funds. Read more
The trying days continue for US money market funds.
They're still attracting some haven-chasers for now, but the combination of complying with the SEC's Rule 2a-7, increased credit risk from Europe and the endless low interest rate environment is making it difficult for them to cover costs. Read more
Yale University's Gary Gorton and Guillermo Ordoñez have a new working paper out on the role of collateral in financial crises. This may not pass for exciting news in some places but FT Alphaville is not like other places. Gorton is renowned for his work on shadow banking and wrote an excellent short primer on the recent crisis.
(Update: He's also, as our commenters point out, the man behind some of the AIG's risk-management models. Take that as you will, we still think there are some interesting insights in the paper.) Read more
Via Fitch Rating's latest report on US prime money market funds' European bank exposure, and as reported by the FT on Friday:
The biggest US money market funds have slashed their exposure to Europe's embattled banking sector to the lowest since at least 2006, the FT reports, underlining the spreading nervousness about the eurozone's indebted periphery. The 10 largest US money market funds reduced their short-term lending to European banks to just $284.6bn by the end of August, or 42.1 per cent of their total assets, Fitch Ratings said in a report published on Thursday. That's the lowest relative exposure since at least the second half of 2006, when Fitch's records begin, and lower than the level reached during the nadir of the financial crisis. Since the end of June, these "prime" money market funds, which act as lubricants for the global financial system and invest mostly in highly-rated debt, have cut their European banking exposure by more than $55bn in absolute terms.
There's been a lot of focus on US money market withdrawals from European banks adding to the current market stress in Europe. But could this be a bit of a red herring?
Kash Mansori at the Street Light blog has pulled data from the ECB's data warehouse, showing a steep decline in deposits held by European monetary financial institutions (MFIs) — that is, banks and money market funds. Read more
A fortnight is a long time in short-term credit markets.
Reports of US money market funds pulling out of European banks in July abounded last month – and French banks appear to be particularly vulnerable due to their relatively high reliance on short-term funds and lower deposit ratios. Well, the trend continued in August, the FT reports: Read more
There's been a lot of talk about how the US money market mutual funds are pulling their money out of the eurozone. And generally chopping and changing the nature of their investments.
But how exactly do the mechanics of that work, and what are the exposures? Read more
Rumours of funding problems at French banks have been rife this summer.
Without even getting into specific financial firms, you can see a potential issues. Read more
Worries about European banks' US dollar funding have been growing lately, even though the latest Fed data show foreign banks still have huge piles of cash on an aggregate basis.
But that's just one part of the funding story. Another concerns our old friends, the money market funds. Fitch Ratings on Monday published its latest monthly report on US MMF exposure to European banks. Read more
Anyone catch this from the New York Fed on Friday? It's hugely important:
Beginning Monday, August 15, the New York Fed intends to conduct another series of small-scale reverse repurchase (repo) transactions using all eligible collateral types. The first operation will be conducted using only the expanded reverse repo counterparties announced on July 27, 2011. Subsequent operations in this series will be open to all eligible reverse repo counterparties. Read more
Bank of America Merril Lynch's Shyam Rajan is one of our favourite repo market experts. He's been following every twist and turn in this unique post-Lehman crisis repo environment.
And his view regarding the downgrade is clear. It will have little impact on the repo markets because most fund and index mandates will not change the way they treat US Treasury securities. They will, to all extent and purposes, remain invest-able. Read more
Money market funds invested in government bonds have increased cash available to meet short-term withdrawals to over two-thirds of their assets, building up liquidity in case of a United States sovereign default, the FT reports. Holdings had been just under half of assets at the end of March. Funds are also avoiding one-month Treasury notes which mature on August 4 and August 11, during the deadline period for raising the US debt ceiling. Corporate treasurers have also moved towards bolstering their cash reserves and hedging interest-rate risk ahead of expected volatility in the Treasury market, reports the WSJ.
US money market funds are stockpiling cash in case Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling, distorting the short-term market for US government debt and raising borrowing costs for banks and other financial institutions, the FT reports. While the funds will continue to hold US Treasuries in the event of a downgrade or default, they are building up liquidity and shunning certain securities due to fears that a failure to raise the debt ceiling could trigger client redemptions. Government-only money market funds have boosted the amount of cash available to meet redemptions within one week to 68 per cent of assets, from 48 per cent at the end of March, according to Barclays Capital. US banks are also bracing for a US default, by holding onto more cash and locking in longer-term financing, also in the FT. They are particularly concerned about the repo market, used for short-term funding.
The president of the Boston Fed has outlined potential reforms to the money market fund industry in new detail, Reuters reports. "While several proposals have been suggested, some combination of capital buffers, floating rate NAVs and enhanced disclosure seems the best way forward," Eric Rosengren said. Floating net asset values have proven controversial, with money market fund executives arguing a fixed $1-per-share NAV provides a bedrock of stability, despite the breaking of the buck by Reserve Primary in the 2008 crisis. Capital buffers rather than an industry-desired "liquidity bank" might be a solution, if they are accepted in place of switching to floating NAVs.
European banks have found far less credit available from US money market funds in the last few weeks, withdrawing a prime supply of short-term financing, the FT reports. Even French banks have seen funding opportunities decline. One banker said that one week or one month was the limit for term funding, down from six to nine months before the middle of June. Lending to Italian or Spanish banks has vanished altogether, one money market fund head said. Funds have been cutting exposure to the region for some time, but French banks were traditionally among the greatest sources of European paper for investment.
US money market funds have sharply cut their exposure to banks in the eurozone over the past few weeks and reduced the availability of credit, even in stronger countries such as France, the FT reports. The money market funds, historically crucial providers of short term financing to European banks, have withdrawn from all but extremely short-term lending as concerns about sovereign debt have mounted. While the agreement of a second bail-out deal for Greece might ease nerves, the funds are also stockpiling cash in case US politicians fail to raise the federal debt ceiling, prompting withdrawals from investors.
Thursday's New York Times article on Wall Street's fallback plans for a technical US default and/or a downgrade of the US credit rating has generated a bit of buzz. Here's the gist:
On Wall Street, Treasuries function like a currency, and investors often use these bonds, which are supposed to be virtually fail-proof, as security deposits in their trading in the markets. Now, banks are sifting through their holdings and their customers' holdings to determine if these security deposits will retain their value. In addition, mutual funds — which own billions of dollars in Treasuries — are working on presentations to persuade their boards that they can hold the bonds even if the government debt is downgraded. And hedge funds are stockpiling cash so they can buy up United States debt if other investors flee.
That the European Central Bank has stepped in to replace much of the eurosystem liquidity that used to be provided by the banks' themselves is well-known. Did you know, however, that one measure of the ECB's liquidity provision is now higher than in the depths of the 2008 financial crisis? Read more
Here's an interesting chart from Société Générale compiled using data from EPFR Global.
It shows recent flows in and out of European money-market funds. Read more
US commercial paper issuance has rebounded to its highest level in nearly two years as companies and banks take advantage of low interest rates, says the FT. While the market for short-term debt issuance has grown, it is unlikely to reclaim the heights seen in 2007, when reliance on such funding was a key element in fuelling the pre-crisis credit bubble. US issuance has risen to $1,227bn, according to the latest weekly data. However, Bloomberg adds that the European debt crisis could pose a threat to money market funds if a rash of sovereign defaults caused big banks to fail to meet obligations within the next three months. Zero Hedge asks if general collateral is the next 'buck-breaking" source of frozen liquidity.
US money market funds are struggling to make returns after short-term interest rates fell to record lows in the wake of regulatory changes and a big decline in Treasury bill issuance, the FT reports. The recent drop in rates has compounded the already low level of returns money market funds have made since the Federal Reserve set overnight rates in a band of zero to 0.25 per cent in December 2008. The low interest rate environment means a growing number of funds are losing business and coming under mounting pressure to consolidate. The Investment Companies Institute calculates that last year the industry waived $4.5bn of fees to maintain the fixed $1 per share net asset value of funds. See also FT Alphaville posts.
US money market funds are struggling to make returns after short-term interest rates fell to record lows in the wake of regulatory changes and a marked decline in Treasury bill issuance, reports the FT. The recent drop in rates has compounded the already low level of returns for money market funds since the Fed set overnight rates in a band of zero to 0.25% in December 2008. The low interest rate environment means an increasing number of funds are losing business and coming under pressure to consolidate. The yield on four-week bills has briefly traded at negative levels, while one-year bills recently touched a low of 0.13%.
The repo rate normally trades closely to money market rates. This is sometimes referred to as the general collateral rate. But sometimes a particular security is in demand for borrowing purposes. This is because there are many dealers who have gone short of that security.
In this situation the cost of borrowing the security increases and depending on supply and demand conditions the repo rate can fall significantly. It can end up several percentage points beneath the prevailing money market rates. And in extreme situations a negative repo rate can occur. Read more


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Millen Jenkins County, approximately fifty miles south of Augusta, and is the county seat. The earliest settlement in the area, dating back to 1835, Millen was originally called "79" due to its approximate distance from Savannah. At the time, the settlement straddled the line between Burke and Screven counties.
The driving force behind the development of Millen was the railroad boom that swept Georgia in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1854 the Central of Georgia Railway, originating from Savannah, and the Georgia Railroad, originating from Augusta, connected at 79. Soon the town became known as Millen's Junction,
During the Civil War (1861-65) a site for a prison camp to house Union soldiers was chosen just outside of Millen's Junction. Fort Lawton was built in what is today Magnolia Springs State Park; the location was favorable because of its easy access to water, which was supplied by the springs, and because of its proximity to the railroad. On December 3, 1864, Sherman's March to the Sea passed through Millen. Prior to the arrival of Union forces, Confederate soldiers evacuated the
After the war, the town was rebuilt. In 1881 the city, now called Millen, was incorporated by an act of the state legislature. As the town began to grow, residents in and around Millen began to lobby for the creation of their own county. The city was oddly positioned at almost the exact corner of four very large counties: Bulloch, Burke, Emanuel, and Screven. The county lines of Burke and Screven ran directly through the center of town, which made it difficult for horse and wagon. In 1905 the state legislature created Jenkins County. Millen was named the county seat, and a courthouse was built there in 1910.
According to the 2010 U.S. census, the population of Millen was 3,120. Today Millen's economy is based primarily on agriculture, agribusiness, and forestry resources. The town has its own hospital, Jenkins County Hospital, and is the site for the county's schools.
Residents celebrate a fall festival, known as the Fair on the Square, each October at the courthouse square. The festival consists of arts and crafts and games for children. Nearby Magnolia Springs State Park offers a freshwater aquarium and a variety of opportunities for recreation that include hiking, biking, swimming, and fishing.
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Further Reading
Virginia E. Leonard, ed., Commemorative Book: Jenkins County Diamond Jubilee Celebration, October 2-9, 1980 ([Millen, Ga.]: Millen News, [1980?]).
Cite This ArticleBrantley, Lawton E. "Millen." New Georgia Encyclopedia. 15 August 2013. Web. 28 July 2016.
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Thanks for the helpMarch 29,2013
Thanks for the help
Many thanks to the Vermont State Police who responded to a dog running on Interstate 89 in the late afternoon on March 14.
Thanks also to the man in the pickup truck who helped in chasing the dog and who was finally able to restrain her with a leash. This enabled us to then transport her to the safety of a private kennel. Thankfully, she was wearing identification tags and her owner has been called. Readers, here is a lesson learned in the importance of using identification tags or microchips for your pets.
Because of the concerned individuals who were willing to get involved to help this dog, and the rapid response of the state police, her life was saved and a potential traffic accident on I-89 was avoided.
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I have been looking and searching for two days, but I can't seem to find an answer to my question.
I have a Windows 2003 Server with IIS 6 where I have keep my pretty static Intranet site (this side of Firewall). I'd like to use a more modern CMS and so I started looking at Joomla and WordPress.
I pretty much gave up on Joomla. It looks like you HAVE TO run it on Linux and Apache server.
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Hear Danielle Roar is an 11x14" Oil on Wood Panel painting from my Candy Escape series of paintings ^_^ She is also my featured Charity print this month on my website [link]
I love your themes but you also know very well how to use ,mix and make unbelievable colors!
I.. can't stop staring at it.
jesus. i really like this one....
This is so beautiful I really like the lion !
You know you read too much game of thrones when you see it everywhere. Nice painting.
so cute
Very beautiful!! <3
Beautiful and amazing. I'm really happy to see beautiful traditional manga art like this! Really good job on the colors!
:0 I love your work so much its so amazing!!!I never would've guessed i'd find you on here.
Gorgeous work.
Wow your art is really amazing and beautiful ^^ <3 I love the colors btw.
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Hey, I'm Danielle!
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Looks like something James Jean would do.
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Dat hair hat. Dayum. 10/10. Would wear for serious street cred.
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All ur paintings are just beautiful and its wonderful that they are for charity. you amaze me every time ^-^
"I am Danielle, Hear me roar."
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State records obtained by the AJC for about a dozen of the governor's staff or appointees show that almost all received more than $10,000 a year raises in their new positions and that all but one of the staffers will earn more than $100,000 a year.
Combined, the dozen staffers made $1.3 million in their previous jobs and are making or will make about $1.7 million in their new positions.
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Running Time: 107
Directors: Barbie (I), Ben Dover
Company: Sunshine Films
Cast: Laura Palmer, Candy Apples, Sabrina (I), Mona Lisa (III)
Critical Rating: A
Genre: Gonzo
This pointless rip-off of OGV's choice "Ben Dover From Britain" series doesn't even have the decency to illuminate Ben's impostor personality: all we hear are a smattering of voice-box altered grumblings addressed to an exhausted-looking blonde named Barbie. Essentially, Barbie and Ben enlist cosmetically-challenged girls from a shopping mall, and then stick dildos and fingers up their butts (the girls' butts, that is). The only thing inspired by this video might be a potential lawsuit.


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MATAMOROS, Mexico (March 9, 2014) The Mexican border city of Matamoros long ago gave up catering to students on spring break who would cross over in droves from Texas beach resorts, but after a three-year increase in American tourism in Mexico, Matamoros is considering whether to reopen bars and restaurants that closed after drug cartel violence drove tourists away.
The city plans to open a children's water park and pier to lure Mexican visitors for Holy Week next month and wants to focus next year on luring spring break vacationers from South Padre Island.
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Strategic Writing Mini-Lessons for All Students, Grades 4-8by Janet Richards
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Pub. Date: 11/06/2012
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The hard reality? By the time they reach middle school, many of our students still lack basic writing skills, and this is their last opportunity to get up to speed before they reach high school. This toolbox of 23 mini-lessons will help you intervene and develop confident, competent writers. You'll
Power up writing instruction with short, differentiated lessons!
The hard reality? By the time they reach middle school, many of our students still lack basic writing skills, and this is their last opportunity to get up to speed before they reach high school. This toolbox of 23 mini-lessons will help you intervene and develop confident, competent writers. You'll find:
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Foreword by Jane Hansen
Introduction: Meeting Your Students' Needs With Specific Writing Strategies by Janet C. Richards, Cynthia A. Lassonde
Section I. Strategic Inventing: Contemplating Ideas
1. Color-Coding Sources by Cynthia A. Lassonde
2. Developing Students' Awareness of Their Strengths as Writers with an I-Can! Chart by Joanne Durham
3. Using a Blueprint Graphic Organizer to Build a Story by Jennifer A. Fontenot
4. Using Genre Charts to Guide Planning and Writing by Gabe Horn, Susan D. Martin
5. Reciprocal Text Structure Mapping for Expository Writing by Joyce C. Fine
6. Thanks for the Memories! Using a Sensory-Details Chart to Prepare to Write by Sandra Gandy, Mariah Kraus
7. Organizing an Expository Essay: Using Big Idea Checklists to Support Writers by Allison Stone, Joyce C. Fine
Section II. Strategic Drafting: Putting Ideas on Paper
8. Quilting Together an Expository Paper in Four Steps by Cynthia A. Lassonde
9. Team Writing to Foster Students' Motivation to Write: Moving From Group Work to Independence by Janet C. Richards
10. Use Your Words: Learning to Paraphrase by Janet C. Richards
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20. Code Switching, an Editing Strategy by Rebecca Wheeler
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Michigan State might be the nation's best developmental program, turning overlooked and undervalued prospects into stars. But after back-to-back top-5 finishes and major bowl wins, the Spartans are upgrading their profile on the recruiting trail. As coach Mark Dantonio said throughout signing day, MSU is no longer selling hope, but results.
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Can Scott compete immediately at running back after you lose a productive player in Jeremy Langford?
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How does Brian Lewerke fit the profile of what you want at quarterback?
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It was quite a process for the Dowell twins. How did you get involved and get them to come to Michigan State?
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With [Kyonta] Stallworth, you've upgraded your offensive line recently. Where do you see him fitting in?
MD: Kyonta's a guy we've seen for a long time here. He's been in our camps, we watched him play in person, he's been in other camps we've watched him at. He was sort of a must guy early on, who we wanted to get. We offered early. Very active, very athletic, displays a lot of power and can really, really run.
Michigan State has been known as a great developmental program. Are you approaching this process any differently now, looking for more guys who can help immediately?
MD: We're going to take the best players we can and get them to play as fast as they can. That's natural. There's been some guys here, so-called developmental guys, but the reality is Le'Veon Bell played as a true freshman, Darqueze Dennard played as a true freshman, Jack Conklin started as a redshirt freshman, and Chris Norman played as a true freshman. We've got some under-developed guys who played early in their careers. Kirk Cousins started as a sophomore. They came and they invested themselves right away.


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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates has written a memoir. The book, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, will be released next week. In it, Gates makes sharp and sometimes profane assessments of the Bush and Obama administrations.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post8392094493911284519..comments2016-07-23T16:33:39.619-05:00Comments on Shanahan on Literacy: What is Close Reading?Tim Shanahanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-8602423396369478202015-09-25T20:26:04.120-05:002015-09-25T20:26:04.120-05:00Giving kids specific purposes for reading is anath...Giving kids specific purposes for reading is anathema to close reading. The idea of close reading is that the students will figure out the text based on the text itself. When you tell students what they are looking for they have a very different negotiation with the text (one likely to advantage the cued information, while distracting from the rest of the author's message). I'm with you.Tim Shanahanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-24457664865185240252015-09-25T15:16:52.276-05:002015-09-25T15:16:52.276-05:00Tim, In your opinion, when preparing to close read...Tim,
In your opinion, when preparing to close read a text, should student preview, the questions before reading? It seems to me previewing the questions prior to reading would tend to limit the information students look for, rather than "gleaning" all of the information possible from the text. It defeats the purpose of close reading. What are your firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-9353638777969765962015-05-18T18:40:54.779-05:002015-05-18T18:40:54.779-05:00Close reading of texts require more time with stud...Close reading of texts require more time with students, particularly in small groups. I find it challenging to find this time, but agree it is critical for students to become close readers of text. I also like that you included the comment that not every text needs to be closely read. firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-42612423230939729482015-03-17T11:32:28.254-05:002015-03-17T11:32:28.254-05:00No one expects (or is requiring) that young studen...No one expects (or is requiring) that young students analyze text as intensively as they will be expected to when they are in high school. However, you have to start somewhere, so doing things like analyzing the relationship of the pictures with the text (look at your standards) is not crazy or inappropriate. If your teaching is "perpetuating a growing hatred toward the reading process altogether" then you are not a very good teacher, and the problem is with the implementation rather than with the standards. I was recently teaching close reading to second-graders and they were asking the teacher when they could do it again. Clearly, you must be doing a horrid job of this. I suggest that you ask for help from your school district because your teaching skills are inadequate in this area.Tim Shanahanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-33986262931186862552015-03-17T10:55:02.953-05:002015-03-17T10:55:02.953-05:00"Thus, close reading is an intensive analysis..."Thus, close reading is an intensive analysis of a text in order to come to terms with what it says, how it says it, and what it means"
As a reading specialist, I would argue this is developmentally inappropriate for most elementary students. Just because supposed rigor is absent at the end of high school does not warrant increasing rigor at the primary level without consideration of development. Why exactly do children under ten need to be intensively analyzing text? Frankly, the introduction of "close reading" into elementary classrooms is perpetuating a growing hatred toward the reading process altogether. email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-72148566560472390922014-07-17T16:42:07.819-05:002014-07-17T16:42:07.819-05:00Given your description of this reader, I would not...Given your description of this reader, I would not emphasize close reading at this time. I would work hard at building up this reader's stamina. That could best be done with lots of fluency work (lots of oral reading with repetition and timed silent reading--start short and expand) and intensive discussion (sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph--ask all the questions you can think of). Help this reader to sustain attention and concentration over longer periods of time and longer texts--stretch him/her out.Tim Shanahanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-88980563658620076812014-07-17T11:20:58.745-05:002014-07-17T11:20:58.745-05:00I'm a year or so behind in leaving a comment, ...I'm a year or so behind in leaving a comment, but new(er) to learning how to teach reading skills. I'm tutoring an adult learner who has dyslexia. I was interested in using close reading with him, but concerned with re-reading as reading two pages once tires him out. I would appreciate any advice you could give. Thank you very much!too many to listhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-29500376980374355072014-06-10T18:02:15.783-05:002014-06-10T18:02:15.783-05:00Close reading does not fit in very well in kinderg...Close reading does not fit in very well in kindergarten. Even in many of the children are reading, the texts rarely are deep enough to make close reading worthwhile. It is possible to involve kids in some close reading style interpretation of texts that are being read to them, but I wouldn't go crazy with this. At kindergarten I would worry more about covering a lot of ground in terms of content (both exposing kids to information about their world and to their literary heritage), rather than trying to involve them in deep analysis (some of that is fine, but I would NOT seek balance with the exposure noted above).Tim Shanahanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-29542248578321841312014-06-10T16:44:13.445-05:002014-06-10T16:44:13.445-05:00How does close reading fit in developmentally for ...How does close reading fit in developmentally for a kindergarten email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-68182605070291311542014-06-02T17:51:55.211-05:002014-06-02T17:51:55.211-05:00This sounds like why I hated reading in school. I...This sounds like why I hated reading in school. I was beyond high school level in elementary school but never enjoyed reading because they analyze it way too much in English class. This close reading sounds redundant and boring to me. Your article explained what it is well but I think literacy has become out of control at the elementary level. There is already too much time spent on it and the way it is being dealt with is so geared to the learning styles of girls as is this close reading nonsense. It sounds like English majors have too much influence on school curriculum. IMO science and math are much more important as that is where the paying jobs are....email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-10288728839420690142014-05-20T10:02:09.446-05:002014-05-20T10:02:09.446-05:00Annotating text and close reading are two very dif...Annotating text and close reading are two very different things. The connection between them is that annotating can be a helpful tool when one is doing close reading (it is much easier to mark up the text than to just remember patterns or images that you noticed when reading). As such, workshops on close reading often spend a lot of time teaching annotating--which is fine, but often distracting. Annotating is useful during close reading, but it is not necessary. it is not a hallmark or distinguishing characteristic of close reading (and it is a useful tool in many non-close reading approaches, too).Tim Shanahanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-55892706385391572532014-05-19T21:07:09.265-05:002014-05-19T21:07:09.265-05:00What is the connection between annotation and clos...What is the connection between annotation and close reading? We are in the 2nd yr of teaching all-annotation, all the time, and we've seen a big improvement in student involvement with the text. now I see "close reading " on the horizon. Compatible or not?
firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-10785136328910275362014-04-22T09:55:37.567-05:002014-04-22T09:55:37.567-05:00Anonymous-- I know of no books about teaching clo...Anonymous--

I know of no books about teaching close reading with basal readers/literature anthologies/core programs. However, there is nothing special about those sources. You still will have to focus on texts that have a depth of meaning (e.g., layers of meaning, alternative interpretations, symbolism, worthwhile content), and you will have to focus your questions on the texts themselves (rather than on the kids' background knowledge, etc.). You will likely spend more time on such selections than the publisher recommends, but in such a case you would just be using it as a source of texts anyway, so that shouldn't be a problem.Tim Shanahanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-80473067121676232592014-04-21T12:24:20.407-05:002014-04-21T12:24:20.407-05:00can you suggest a good professional development bo...can you suggest a good professional development book and what do you suggest for doing it with the email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-8240090026810972202014-03-23T11:49:41.481-05:002014-03-23T11:49:41.481-05:00Science Teacher-- Rereading and taking notes on w...Science Teacher--

Rereading and taking notes on what one reads are definitely part of close reading, but as you point out, they really aren't hallmarks of it since these are common practices in other kinds of reading as well.

Close reading has two hallmarks: First, the entire emphasis is on focusing on the text that the author has provided. It is really important to shut out other sources of information while you engage in a close read. (Those sources might include information that the teacher tells you, but it also might be ignoring the illustrations which probably didn't come from the author--this can be really important in science reading, since illustrations like photographs often are inaccurate or inappropriate to the texts).

Second, close reading emphasizes the accomplishment of multiple interpretive goals.

1. Readers have to understand what the text says (just like in SQ3R).

2. Readers have to understand how a text works... how the author's choices of words and structure support, extend, and reinforce the author's message. (Something not a focus in SQ3R). Thus, the teacher might ask students, why the author expressed the following idea using a passive sentence: "Excess sodium ions are released from the osmoregulatory organ under hypertonic conditions."

3. Readers have to critically respond to text and connect it up with other texts (in science, this might involve making connections across different parts of a text--like connecting a table of data up with a paragraph). Again, this isn't highlighted in SQ3R or other approaches to reading.

Your students will definitely need to reread and take notes to accomplish these three interpretive goals only using information from the text, but rereading and note-taking are just superficial aspects of the process.Tim Shanahanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-61378008242448867742014-03-23T07:49:55.299-05:002014-03-23T07:49:55.299-05:00How is close reading really any different from the...How is close reading really any different from the old SQ3R which calls for re-reading?Scienceteacher1991http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-50889374289535952132013-11-13T09:19:51.232-06:002013-11-13T09:19:51.232-06:00Close reading does NOT require short text, though ...Close reading does NOT require short text, though it is can be more practical in a classroom.... it usually takes more time for a longer text, but that isn't always the case. (I think the idea comes from the idea that the text will be re-read. However, re-readings can be in entirety or can be more targeted. So if you were close reading the Gettysburg Address, it would make sense to read the speech several times. However, if you were guiding students to re-read a 20-page chapter, you would dip into particular pages or paragraphs to focus attention on those parts.

In terms of questions, indeed, the idea is to ask questions that require knowledge of the text to answer. However, text-dependent questions are not necessarily literal questions or "right there questions." Tim Shanahanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-9035471237433592772013-11-13T09:19:50.040-06:002013-11-13T09:19:50.040-06:00Close reading does NOT require short text, though ...Close reading does NOT require short text, though it is can be more practical in a classroom.... it usually takes more time for a longer text, but that isn't always the case. (I think the idea comes from the idea that the text will be re-read. However, re-readings can be in entirety or can be more targeted. So if you were close reading the Gettysburg Address, it would make sense to read the speech several times. However, if you were guiding students to re-read a 20-page chapter, you would dip into particular pages or paragraphs to focus attention on those parts.

In terms of questions, indeed, the idea is to ask questions that require knowledge of the text to answer. However, text-dependent questions are not necessarily literal questions or "right there questions." Tim Shanahanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-91497884005080710812013-11-13T09:19:47.641-06:002013-11-13T09:19:47.641-06:00Close reading does NOT require short text, though ...Close reading does NOT require short text, though it is can be more practical in a classroom.... it usually takes more time for a longer text, but that isn't always the case. (I think the idea comes from the idea that the text will be re-read. However, re-readings can be in entirety or can be more targeted. So if you were close reading the Gettysburg Address, it would make sense to read the speech several times. However, if you were guiding students to re-read a 20-page chapter, you would dip into particular pages or paragraphs to focus attention on those parts.

In terms of questions, indeed, the idea is to ask questions that require knowledge of the text to answer. However, text-dependent questions are not necessarily literal questions or "right there questions." Tim Shanahanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-14435867028528567972013-11-11T20:13:47.505-06:002013-11-11T20:13:47.505-06:00I think reading all the previous posts has somewha...I think reading all the previous posts has somewhat helped me understand close reading a bit more. My concern is that I keep hearing from the powers that be that I should only use a short text when doing a close read. And that I need to use only "text-dependent questions"? How much truth is there to email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-15813077153627773472013-10-20T19:06:32.466-05:002013-10-20T19:06:32.466-05:00If it is done well, that should be the outcome. Th...If it is done well, that should be the outcome. That's the idea anyway. Of course, close reading doesn't need to be done in three reads. Connections could actually be made throughout a series of text discussions--as long as the teacher/guide recognizes the difference between those connections that engage the students deeply with the text and those that are an excuse for ignoring it. Tim Shanahanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-51073551529709112792013-10-20T18:05:18.908-05:002013-10-20T18:05:18.908-05:00Thank you so much for your timely response! So, wo...Thank you so much for your timely response! So, would you say that by taking the students through the three stages of close reading in order (with connecting being last)helps with firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-79501538736252327002013-10-20T13:45:12.385-05:002013-10-20T13:45:12.385-05:00In fact, there is research showing that not all co...In fact, there is research showing that not all connections are equal. The issue is whether the connections lead you to think more deeply about the text or whether they lead you to think more about the connections. Thus, if the reader says, "My bicycle was stolen, too, so I know how this character feels. Given that, I think he won't trust the kids in his neighborhood as much so that explains for me why he talked to his friend the way he did. Now I wonder whether his friend will be understanding or just angry himself." There is a good chance that the connection will have led to better comprehension.

But what if instead the discussion goes like this: "My bicycle was stolen too, and it was a real pain. I had forgotten to lock it up, and boy was my dad mad about it. I didn't get a new bicycle until the next summer. What a pain." That connection is a distraction and instead of leading the student to think more about the ideas in the text, they became a replacement for the ideas in the text. Texts are not just reminders of what we already know. They need to serve as more than just jumping off points for reverie. (Merle Wittrock summarized the research on this back in the 1970s, in Review of Educational Research--text elaborations that get you to think about the text improve comprehension, elaborations that get you to think about something else than the text undermine comprehension).

I don't know of any graphic organizers for close reading.

Tim Shanahanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1557533956996103818.post-49309511323822678582013-10-19T01:08:35.647-05:002013-10-19T01:08:35.647-05:00This is wonderful; thank you! I am wondering... 1...This is wonderful; thank you! I am wondering...

1. We have a strong emphasis on making connections throughout the grade levels. Is the research showing that the teachers' great focus on making connections actually takes student's away from the meaning of the text?

2. Do you know of any kid-friendly graphic organizers that will help guide students through the three purposeful readings?

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For the most part, they don't get it, Jen. You probably have a sufficient number of artifacts on your desk to be an encyclopedia of art history. Maybe I'm wrong, I have a Lempicka print! Besides, urinals are practically everywhere; chessboards are around too.
Contemporary galleries, lofts, installation sites, graffiti walls, on and on, are where it's at, for the most part? Did you see the faux-house being built on Pike St? Last weekend I walked by it, they had a huge projected film on the side of a wall next to the house. It was nice, since a lot of people were in the U-District partying. It's 'opening' is tonight.
It's a great comment on Duchamp, the ultimate artist-unartist, who gave up art to play chess (all a joke, of course) that the Met doesn't have any of his work.
Of course, when viewing the bicycle wheel installed in a stool at MoMA about 20 years ago with a friend, she grabbed the wheel and gave it a spin. A security guard swung around, but we'd already moved on. Duchamp must have smiled.
Wasn't there a gentleman's agreement for most of the last century that the Met wouldn't intrude on MoMa's territory? It's kind of pointless for them to play catch-up now. I mean, where does the Met go to get a Duchamp? Is it going to be an important work? No, because the important works are few, well-known, and not going anywhere. And why? Just to check another box on their list?
My favorite Duchampian reference is on the artwork of a Gang of Four album. A friend lent it to me about five years ago, but they already had broken up. I surprisingly became a big fan of their music. I hear them sometimes on KEXP and according to the station, the band has reunited.
There is no agreement between the Met and MoMA. [a popular myth] The Director of the Met has a documented aversion to living artists. The institution is structured in such a way that they are only now begining to understand early twentieth century art. There are also major gaps in the Met's collection of art made in the USA from 1914-1940. The institutional belief at the time was that all the Modern art made in Europe was crap and all the Modern art made in the USA was an imitation of European crap. The lack of a single work by Duchamp speaks to the institution's lazy approach to collection building. They would prefer if yet another mega-buck gazillionaire would just give them what they lack.
Still the joint is worth seeing if only for the stuff that they do have.
I've been to the Met once. My uncle took me when I was a kid. Don't think I've been to MoMA. Last year, my girlfriend wanted to go the Guggenheim. I had a feeling it wasn't a great idea. She was a bit of a cynic, and perhaps was baiting my art interests. Sure enough, the winding platforms, either that or the abstract sculpture exhibit, caused her to spend some time at the 'urinal' in their restroom.
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