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This signs of spring close reading packet has everything you need to engage your students while practicing the common core standards! This high interest passage with text features will meet the needs of all your students with the two differentiated passages that are included.
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This signs of spring passage includes 2 different reading levels. One for lower readers in the 2nd grade range (word count 250) and the other for on-level to above-level students (word count 339). Remember, for close reading, text should be slightly difficult to allow for your digging deeper discussions!
This high interest reading passage resource includes:
- Reading passage at two different levels
- Teacher pages detailing what is close reading and what it looks like in my classroom
- Annotation symbols -full page anchor chart or bookmarks available
- Key focus of the passage – Text Features – in two different levels
- 5 additional nonfiction graphic organizers to use with this passage or others
- Vocabulary word cards, pictures and definitions for your pocket charts
- Vocabulary focus pamphlet to record vocabulary learned
- Half-page booklet that students can document their learning
- Two pages of text dependent questions that are common core aligned (pages can be used for both reading levels)
- Google Slides versions added
- Answer keys
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Get the GROWING bundle at a never before DISCOUNT OF 35%! (Due to repeated pages of teacher information and general graphic organizers) See below for everything included.
Close Reading Passages and Questions for Signs of Spring
$5.00
Grades: 2nd – 4th
Subjects: Close Reading, Informational Text
Format: Google Apps, PDF
Total Pages: 31
Answer Key: Included
Teaching Duration: NA
Common Core Standards:
CCSSRI.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
CCSSRI.2.2
Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
CCSSRI.2.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
CCSSRI.2.5
Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
CCSSRI.2.6
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
CCSSRI.2.7
Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
CCSSRI.2.8
Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
CCSSRI.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CCSSRI.3.2
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
CCSSRI.3.4
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
CCSSRI.3.5
Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
CCSSRI.4.1
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
CCSSRI.4.2
Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
CCSSRI.4.3
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.
CCSSRI.4.4
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
CCSSRI.4.8
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.
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