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Back to School Close 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 Back to School reading passages is the perfect tool to learn and implement close reading strategies.

Included in this 16-page resource:

• Inspiration and Directions for Use

• What is Close Reading?

• Close Reading Strategies

• The False Start: Fictional Narrative (1080L)

• Back to School: Informational Text (1300L)

• How to Have the Worst First Day: Expository Text (1000L)

• The Night Before: Poem (690L)

• The Ornery Alpaca: Fable (780L)

• Answer Key

Estimated Lexile Measure: 690-1300L

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.

• Back to school is the perfect time to incorporate close reading into your ELA classroom.

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Happy Close Reading!

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Common Core Standards: RL.4.1, RL.4.4, RL.4.10, RL.5.1, RL.5.4, RL.5.10, RL.6.1, RL.6.4, RL.6.10, RI.4.1, RI.4.10, RI.5.1, RI.5.10, RI.6.1, RI.6.10

Total Pages
16 pages
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Teaching Duration
1 month
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Standards

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).
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
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.

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