Spring Close Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Differentiated Reading

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These fun and engaging close reading passages and activities about the history of spring fever will engage students and spark interest! Students will learn about the symptoms of spring fever and how they have changed over time from scurvy “spring disease” to the phenomenon of spring fever today.

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These fun and engaging close reading passages and activities about the history of spring fever will engage students and spark interest! Students will learn about the symptoms of spring fever and how they have changed over time from scurvy “spring disease” to the phenomenon of spring fever today. They are the perfect tools to help students practice close reading skills during the month of May. This week-long lesson on Spring Fever: Is it Real or Imagined? follows a close reading model and includes a teacher guide and notes to make teaching the lesson easy! Students will be required to use close reading skills to practice making logical inferences, citing textual evidence, and drawing conclusions from the text.

Through reading comprehension and close reading skills, students will also learn about the mood and behavior changes commonly felt by people with the arrival of spring.

PRINT & GO! Easily differentiate instruction with the leveled reading passages for grades 3-5. Includes everything you need to teach a week-long close reading lesson.

⭐A digital Google Classroom option is included! (Google Slides™)

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Close Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions | May Bundle

 

Close Reading Lesson:

Spring Fever: Is it Real or Imagined?

This high-interest and engaging topic will captivate the interest of students!

 

Step-by-Step instructions (for teacher and students) are included that follow a close reading model.

Step 1: First Reading: Determine what the text says.

Step 2: Second Reading: Determine how the text says it.

Step 3: Third Reading: Determine what the text means.

Step 4: Written Comprehension: Write and Respond

Includes:

  • Implementation Guide (Steps to Close Reading)
  • Teacher Guide and Notes
  • Classroom Posters
  • Mark It Up! Annotation Cards
  • 2 Differentiated Reading Passages
  • Text-Dependent Questions
  • Vocabulary Practice
  • Written Response
  • Close Reading Graphic Organizers

Easily Differentiate Instruction!

These close reading comprehension passages are written at 2 different levels to allow for differentiation during instruction. The content of the 2 passages is the same, but the reading levels are different. Questions about the content are the same. This makes it easy for you to provide students with the same questions and activity sheets while also allowing students to practice close reading skills on their reading level.

All answer keys are included!

⭐Note: Each reading passage is leveled with special symbols at the bottom left corner to denote difficulty levels.

 

This resource is aligned to the anchor standard that refers to reading text closely:

ELA Reading Standard 1: “Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it, cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.”

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