1st Grade Common Core Earth Day & More April Themes Google Slides™ PDFs

Google Slides™ and PDF included

Celebrate April with relevant reading! In this unit, you will find passages specifically designed for first grade. Students who will benefit from this unit include: low second or third graders, high kindergarten students, and ELL students new to America or within the first two years of the English language acquisition process.

Eight Passages

Informational Texts/ Non-Fiction

Each text has SIX activities!

1. Questions on single page.

2. Three pages of aligned questions.

--- Organized by Common Core Category

Key Ideas and Details RI.1.1, RI.1.2, RI.1.3

Craft and Structure RI.1.4, RI.1.5, RI.1.6

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas RI.1.7, RI.1.8

3. One graphic organizer.

4. Two writing connections. (One creative and one text evidence)

Text Coding Guide and Close Reading Recommendations aligned to standards! Presented in a developmentally appropriate fashion to build students who love to read, cite evidence, and are text dependent!

Each of the 8 Passage Titles Are:

1. All About April

2. April Fools' Day

3. Earth Day

4. Arbor Day

5. Baskets & Bunnies

6. Easter Egg Coloring and Hunting

7. All About Rabbits

8. National Poetry Month

Each title above can serve as weeklong homework!

Each of the single passage pages above can be printed out to be used as stand-alone activities.

Can be used for standards based or referenced grading!

While this unit fits perfectly with April--- the activities are timeless.

Text dependent question pages are aligned to Common Core Standards and can be used for assessment purposes.

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Click here to see my 1st Grade March Close Reading Unit.

Click here to see my 1st Grade February Close Reading Unit.

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For more on Text Coding, Text Structures, and Close Reading of Informational Texts.

Click HERE to see my Interactive Notebook for Informational Text, Text Structures, and Close Reads.

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Click HERE to see my Monthly Close Reading Units.

"Helping your children become text-dependent!"

Each monthly unit has history, biographies, science topics, holidays, and more!

Designed for Close Reading: Other uses includehomework, social studies, or science.

Text dependent questions are designed for text evidence responses!

Each passage is written at FOUR levels.From first to fifth!

Each passage has five or more activities. Use for guided reading!

Each passage can be used as week-long homework!

Click HERE to check out my Monthly Close Reading Club!

January-December!

Click below to see more of each individual unit in the file.

Click HERE for the January Close Reading Unit. 20 passages: EACH Written at FOUR levels.

Click HERE for the February Close Reading Unit. 20 passages: EACH Written at FOUR levels.

Click HERE for the March Close Reading Unit. 20 passages: EACH Written at FOUR levels.

Click HERE for the April Close Reading Unit. 20 passages: EACH Written at FOUR levels.

Click HERE for the May Close Reading Unit. 20 passages: EACH Written at FOUR levels.

Click HERE for the June Close Reading Unit. 20 passages: EACH Written at FOUR levels.

Click HERE for the August Close Reading Unit. 10 passages: EACH Written at FOUR levels.

Click HERE for the September Close Reading Unit. 20 passages: EACH Written at FOUR levels.

Click HERE for the October Close Reading Unit. 20 passages: EACH Written at FOUR levels.

Click HERE for the November Close Reading Unit. 20 passages: EACH Written at FOUR levels.

Click HERE for the December Close Reading Unit. 20 passages: EACH Written at FOUR levels.

Click the green links to see the titles included in each unit.

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