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January and New Year's Reading Passages with Comprehension Questions

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4th - 7th, Homeschool, Staff
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Do your students need more close reading work to practice their reading comprehension skills? This bundle of January and New Year's reading passages is the perfect tool to learn and implement close reading strategies.

This 18-page New Year’s close reading resource includes:

• Inspiration and Directions for Use

• What is Close Reading?

• Close Reading Strategies

• Dear Journal: Reflective Journal (1010L)

• The Ball Drop in Times Square: Informational Text (1010L)

• How to Plan the Perfect Holiday Party: Expository Text (810L)

• A Fresh Start: Poem (610L)

• City Cat and Country Cat: Fable (610L)

• Answer Key

Directions for Use…

• Use for weekly reading homework, center work, read-to-self, read-to-someone, whole class strategy work, small group, or one-on-one intervention. The uses are endless.

• Copy passages, questions, and organizers.

• Teach students the Close Reading Strategies-FRUIT

• Watch as your students become more engaged, independent readers capable of answering text dependent questions.

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Happy Close Reading!

Erin

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18 pages
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1 month
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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 meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

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