These close reading passages and activities are the perfect tools to help students practice close reading skills during the month of April. Topics include COVID-19, Easter, Baseball Legends, Earth Day, Arbor Day, and the sinking of the Titanic. These week-long lessons follow a close reading model, and each one includes a teacher guide and notes to make teaching the lesson easy! Students will be required to use close reading skills to practice making logical inferences, citing textual evidence, a