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April Nonfiction Close Reading Comprehension Passages and Questions

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Fifth in the Middle
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I have used these nonfiction close reading passages with my own fifth graders to promote more meaningful interactions with text. I purposefully wrote these texts to be high-interest and short so that the students would be motivated to read the text multiple times. The follow-up activities have gotten my students to go back to the text and dig deeper.

How are my close reading texts unique?

★ Original, high-interest, and short passages written by me

★ Discreetly differentiated into five levels of difficulty to address a wide range of student abilities

★ Variety of engaging follow-up activities that require students to dig deeper into the passages

★ Paired text and activity for each topic

★ Format options for use with or without interactive notebooks

Perfect for:

★ Whole group

★ Guided reading

★ ELA centers

★ Homework

What is included?

★ Overview of close reading

★ Lesson plan pacing guides for whole group, small group, and homework options

★ Five levels of passages, second and third reading activities, writing response, paired text and activity, and answer keys for each topic

★ Half-page and notebook page header options for interactive notebooks

BONUS!

Click here to download FREE 10-question assessments to go with all of my monthly close reading topics!

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This Month:

Opening Day

★ Cause/effect

★ Supporting details

★ Opinion writing

★ Paired with Take Me Out to the Ball Game (opinion writing)

Titanic (ship’s features)

★ Author’s purpose

★ Main idea/supporting details

★ Opinion writing

★ Paired with Luxury Airlines (compare/contrast)

Jelly Beans

★ Details

★ Sequencing

★ Opinion writing

★ Paired with Ronald Reagan (opinion writing)

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

★ Context clues

★ Imperative sentences

★ Opinion writing

★ Paired with Vermicomposting (visualizing)

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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.

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