Seasonal Reading Comprehension Passages – BUNDLE (Differentiated) | Print & Digital Google Slides

Description

Save 20% on this bundle of Text Time reading comprehension passages that are great for the whole school year!

• FALL 🍁
• WINTER ❄️
• SPRING 🌷

What’s Included in each Seasonal Reading Set:

• 20 passages (presented in 2 levels for a total of 40 passages)
• Text Dependent Questions
• Google Slides digital version
• Paired passages graphic organizer
• Answer Keys

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How to Use These Close Reading Passages:

• Bell work or warm-up
• Center or station
• As part of a reading packet
• With a small group
• As homework
• As enrichment for younger, highly capable students
• As remediation for struggling students
• Test prep

The passages are sequenced in cycles of five as follows:

IT: Informational Text (nonfiction)

L: Literature (fiction)

IT: Informational Text (nonfiction) with an illustration

L: Literature (fiction)

IT: Informational Text (nonfiction)

Breakdown by type: 3/5 Informational Text, 2/5 Literature.

Within the 20 passages, there are three sets of paired passages (TT 1/2, TT 12/13, and 16/17) and a multiple paired passages (6/7/8). The paired passages appear adjacent to each other and address a similar topic for comparing and contrasting. An additional printable is included to use with these paired passages. These passages will also work as stand alone activities if you do not want to use them together.

The skills addressed in each passage are written in small print at the bottom on the left hand side. The skills address most of the RI and RL Common Core Standards and include: reading for details, main idea, summarizing, inference, predicting, genre setting/character/plot, theme, context clues/vocabulary, figurative language, author’s style, author’s purpose, point of view, mood/tone, text structure, comparing and contrasting, interpreting an illustration, analysis, and evaluation. They are also listed in the Table of Contents.

Terms of Use

This resource was created by Rachel Lynette for Minds in Bloom INC., all rights reserved. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may distribute this product in email, through google classroom or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. In other words, you may distribute it to your own students but may not put it on the Internet where it could be publicly found and downloaded. Thank you for respecting these terms of use. 🙂

This product is happily brought to you by Rachel Lynette and Cassi Noack of Minds in Bloom

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