Earth Day Reading Comprehension Passages - Close Reading Activities
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This HOLIDAY BUNDLE of 12 sets of Close Reading Comprehension Passages with Mystery Pictures, provided in both DIGITAL and PRINT formats, is designed to engage students in analyzing text using close reading comprehension strategies. This resource motivates students to persevere through the multi-drPrice $64.99Original Price $96.00Save $31.01
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Earth Day Close Reads with Mystery Pictures, provided in both DIGITAL and PRINT formats, are designed to engage students in analyzing text using close reading comprehension strategies. This resource motivates students to persevere through the multi-draft reading process with the use of the mystery grid picture, making it a fun activity that students will ask for again and again!
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This Earth Day set features three different texts about the holiday, including a story about caring for the earth, an informational piece about how to help our planet, and the history of Earth Day. Students will love learning about these Earth Day topics as they read the 3 texts: one fiction and two non-fiction.
These texts are DIFFERENTIATED at three reading levels, so all students will be appropriately challenged! As they complete the close reading process, students will build comprehension by answering text-dependent questions. Here’s the fun part: their answers to the questions will help them “decode” and color the corresponding Earth Day themed mystery grid picture!
Graphic organizers and writing prompts are also included to enhance reading comprehension and can be used as you see fit! Want to see for yourself? Check out this fun FREEBIE to see how the text levels and questions can work for your classroom! Update: Audio version is now available for every reading passage!
This activity is perfect for training students to read a text multiple times in order to truly understand it. By reading a text more than once, annotating it, and answering questions, students will learn to find and analyze:
- Author’s purpose
- Text structure
- Text-based evidence
- Central ideas
...And more!!
☆ Included in Every Set ☆
- Teacher Pages: explaining the different parts of the resource and how to use it in the classroom
- Digital Copies: of the student pages for assigning via Google Slides or Powerpoint + instructions
- 3 Different Texts: passages that are differentiated into three different reading levels. 1 fiction and 2 nonfiction texts
- 10 Text-Dependent Questions: corresponding to each passage (Option to use with or without the mystery grid)
- 3 Mystery Grid Pictures: one for each passage, corresponding to the text-dependent questions
- 3 Writing Prompts: one for each passage
- Audio Files: audio for every passage included in digital versions and available for download
- Graphic Organizers: as an option to use with any of the texts
- Student Printables: close reading/annotating tip sheets to print for the students to keep/use during the process. Perfect for notebooks!
☆ Texts Included in this Resource ☆
➊ "Mrs. Marshall's Class" & "Penelope the Squirrel" two short fiction passages about caring for the Earth that students can compare & contrast.
➋ "How You Can Help" an informational passage about the many ways kids can help pitch in to help the Earth.
➌ "History of Earth Day" an informational passage about the history of the holiday; how it got started and what it's all about.
☆ Options for Use in the Classroom ☆
Use these high-interest texts to practice close reading strategies, answering text-dependent questions, vocabulary, and responding to text in writing.
- Whole group
- Small groups
- Learning centers/stations
- Homework
- Sub Plans
- Test Prep
- Tutoring
- Room Transformations
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