Close Reading Comprehension Passages - Close Reading - September

Take out all the prep work with these easy-to-use close reading comprehension passages relating to the month of September. Each of the close reading passages (2 fiction and 2 nonfiction) contain 5 days of comprehension activities and graphic organizers that use text-dependent questioning to encourage high-level thinking in your students.

Each passage also contains symbols to use for marking the text to encourage active reading. A page is included at the beginning of the document to align each activity with Common Core standards for second, third, and fourth grade.

*** Please note that the CCSS Lexile Levels for grades 2-4 are as follows. These passages may be a bit of a challenge for 2nd grade, but are perfect for those readers who need more of a challenge.***

2nd Grade 420-650

3rd Grade 520-820

4th Grade 740-940

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Included Pages

Text - First Day of School (Lexile 700)

• Word Choice
• Vocabulary Graphic Organizer
• Text Dependent Comprehension Questions
• Inferring Character Traits
• Illustrating Events

Text - Johnny Appleseed (Lexile 830)

• Asking Questions Before Reading
• Vocabulary Graphic Organizer
• Text Dependent Comprehension Questions
• Adding Captions to Pictures
• Nonfiction Text Features

Text - Apple Fun (Lexile 760)

• Making Connections
• Vocabulary Graphic Organizer
• Text Dependent Comprehension Questions
• Story Elements
• Author's Purpose

Text - Autumn (Lexile 840)

• Visualization
• Vocabulary Graphic Organizer
• Text Dependent Comprehension Questions
• Illustrating the Text
• 3-2-1 Graphic Organizer

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Katie Plotts says, "Passages are engaging and the pages that go along with the passages are easy to follow and student friendly. I have bought other months as well after buying this one. I like the similar format as it gets students used to seeing the same thing and can work more independently after doing some together."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Alyssa V. says, "Great resource to use when starting off the year! Includes many different activities that can help to establish a student's baseline performance for reading comprehension."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Courtney T. says, "I used this in a small-group intervention. Marking the story with the ?, !, etc had them engaged from the beginning! It's a great method of interacting with the text. You can choose which vocab words to use, which is how I leveled that part of the comprehension. Love this, thank you!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Barbra S. says, "Love these for our ready groups. I break up my groups by abilities and then I can personalize the exact assistance needed."