Paired Texts, Close Reading, Essay Writing - Digital Learning Bundle

These 10 reading comprehension lessons include all of my Google Drive paired passages. Each lesson culminates in a writing task that imitates the style of a standardized assessment. Google Slides guide students through close readings of texts that vary by genre, time period, and author; then the before-, during-, and post-reading strategies help them compare and contrast the texts.

Paired Passage products include the following:

• lesson plans with identified Common Core Standards
• anticipation guides
• contextual reading guides and sample annotation passages
• sample texts
• literature webs and poetry graphic organizers
• Venn diagrams
• literary analysis prompts
• rubrics
• answer keys

Detailed responses for all activities and sample essays are provided in the keys. Furthermore, some lessons include "think-aloud" instructional videos.

The following poems, speeches, and stories are included:

• “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost & “Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes
• “Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth and “Phenomenal Woman” by Maya Angelou
• “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” by Emily Dickinson
• “Naming Myself” by Barbara Kingsolver and “My Name” by Sandra Cisneros
• “The Gift of the Magi” by O.Henry and “How Do I Love Thee? ” by Elizabeth Barret Browning
• “Speech to the Second Virginia Convention” by Patrick Henry and “The War Prayer” by Mark Twain
• “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes and excerpt from A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
• "First Lesson" by Philip Booth and "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden
• Myths: "How the World Was Made" and "Demeter and Persephone
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Sonnet 100" by Fulke Greville

Each lesson includes a PDF file with instructions for teachers, links to Google slides, and answer keys. If you complete one of these lessons each week, they will last you for almost two months! Because of the text variety, they are also great for differentiating and meeting the needs of diverse learners.

These lessons can be used with a variety of online learning platforms including Google Classroom™, MS OneDrive™, Schoology™ and more!

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