Test Prep Passages: Poetry Paired Texts - Close Reading and Essay Writing Bundle
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Challenge your students to read and write critically with these lessons including all of my popular "Paired Passages" (paired texts). These lessons require students to synthesize their reading and identify central ideas across texts. Each lesson guides them through close readings of texts that varyPrice $25.20Original Price $31.50Save $6.30
These 19 paired passages (using 39 texts) require students to use close reading, critical thinking, and analytical writing to help them prepare for standardized assessments. In each lesson, students synthesize their reading, identifying central ideas and themes across texts. With texts that vary byPrice $44.99Original Price $72.15Save $27.16
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Help students with their reading comprehension and literary analysis writing by using these "Paired Passages." These detailed lesson plans will provide you with everything you need to help your students meet Common Core English Language Arts Standards as they make connections between the poems and construct effective comparison essays.
A variety of poems helps you differentiate your instruction and include the following texts:
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning
“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar
“I’m Nobody! Who are you?” by Emily Dickinson
“First Lesson” by Philip Booth
“Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden.
Each lesson culminates in a writing task that imitates the style of a standardized assessment. Because sample essays and detailed responses for all activities are provided in these lessons, this product is ideal for emergency substitute lesson plans.
This 62-page bundle includes the following:
-explicit lesson plans with identified Common Core ELA Anchor Standards
-anticipation guides and activities
-contextual reading guides with sample annotation passages
-poems
-literature webs and poetry graphic organizers
-Venn diagrams
-literary analysis prompts
-rubrics
-answer keys
-sample essays
These lessons can now be used for distance learning with the TpT Digital Layer Tool!
Would you prefer different paired passages lessons? You may be interested in the following resources:
A Raisin in the Sun and Mother to Son
Story of an Hour and A Rose for Emily
The Most Dangerous Game and The Lottery
The Road Not Taken and Dream Deferred
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