2nd 3rd Grade Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions, Nonfiction Close

Are you looking for high-interest nonfiction reading comprehension passages to help your students practice their close reading strategies? This set of reading passages comes with 30 weeks of close reading sets.

New to close reading? There is a how-to introduction within the product that breaks down each day's tasks for the week. This is an introduction to each day's tasks plus three general graphic organizers in case you want to supplement Asking Questions, Main Idea and Detail, and Fact-Finding.

Close Reading Strategies Covered:

Each week has 4 days of activities.

Day 1:

• Teacher reads story aloud
• Student annotates with pencil

Day 2:

• Partner reading &Talk Time
• Work on Vocabulary

Day 3:

• Independent Reading
• Text-Dependent Questions

Day 4:

• Cumulative Writing Activity

30 Nonfiction Passages:

• Astronauts
• Moon
• Sun
• Earth
• Spring
• Summer
• Fall
• Winter
• Snow
• Rain
• Thunderstorms
• Baseball
• Soccer
• Football
• Vegetables
• Fruit
• Farms
• National Parks
• Rainforests
• Caves
• Deserts
• Arctic
• Swamps
• U.S. Money
• Technology
• Airplanes
• Dinosaurs
• Whales
• Elephants
• Giraffes
• The resource is also created in Google Slides. You can get access to the digital versions on page 6 of the PDF.

Here are other Close Reading products:

• Fall Close Reading- 14 passages
• Winter Close Reading- 14 passages
• Spring Close Reading- 14 passages
• Summer Close Reading- 10 passages
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