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Analysis through Hyperdocs

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Starting a new year and getting back into the swing of school means I was cruising through my drive in an effort to clean up the tomb. The benefits of doing this, is stumbling across documents you've forgotten and that were shared with you. This is a chance to breath new life into them.  My former colleague, Nadine Bailey  was the first one to introduce me to Hyperdocs as a tool to deepen comprehension and analyze text. Hyperdocs were developed by Lisa Highfill , Kelly Hilton  and Sarah Landis  and they discuss them through the lens of being a change agent, teachers can use this versatile tool for almost any subject and more importantly have their students make connections using different media, through videos, pictures, etc. I strongly encourage you to check out their site  https://hyperdocs.co . For guided reading, hyperdocs are a fantastic tool to deepen comprehension and analysis skills since students are working with the  text  in a meaningful way. One of the struggles t