Amelia Earhart Paired Passages Paired Texts Compare and Contrast Passages

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Do your students need help integrating information from two texts on the same topic?These nonfiction passages and reading comprehension activities about Amelia Earhart include paired passages (or paired texts) that will help your students compare and contrast passages with a similar theme and topic.

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Do your students need help integrating information from two texts on the same topic? These nonfiction passages and reading comprehension activities about Amelia Earhart include paired passages (or paired texts) that will help your students compare and contrast passages with a similar theme and topic.

 

This PRINT & DIGITAL mini-unit about the life of Amelia Earhart integrates social studies with reading and includes 12 fun and engaging pages of activities perfect for 4th and 5th grade. It is guaranteed to increase engagement while sparking interest and learning!

 

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In this assignment, students will compare and contrast details in paired texts as they learn about the amazing life of Amelia Earhart, her rise to fame, and the most credible theories regarding her disappearance on her last fight around the world.

 

In this download, you will get:

  • a teacher’s guide and notes
  • 2 nonfiction passages about animal adaptations
  • 2 vocabulary practice activities
  • vocabulary picture cards with definitions (perfect for pocket charts and centers)
  • 2 different compare and contrast graphic organizers
  • reading comprehension questions (multiple choice and open-ended)
  • written comprehension activity
  • a Google digital version
  • all answer keys

 

⭐ A complete lesson of this resource is included in Google Slides with a multiple-choice, automatically graded reading comprehension quiz in Google Forms. Points have already been assigned to the quiz, but you can easily adjust them to fit your needs. All directions are included for how to assign this resource to your students digitally.

 

Your students will:

  • analyze 2 nonfiction passages on the same topic
  • demonstrate understanding of vocabulary found in the texts
  • find common details about each text
  • determine which details in both texts are important
  • compare the details in the texts to find which are different
  • combine the information from both texts to meet the purpose for writing or speaking

 

These activities are perfect for:

  • assessments
  • review
  • literacy centers
  • small groups
  • independent desk work
  • early finishers
  • homework
  • sub plans

 

Teachers like you said…

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ These reading passages are well laid out, aligned to standards, and easy to use for students and teachers. Highly recommend! – Deana J.

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My kids loved learning about this important historical figure! This was the perfect resource for comparing texts! – Shalane L.

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This was a great resource for our collaborative unit on the history of flight. – Jane H.

 

In this one convenient resourceyou can…

  • have ready-to-go reading comprehension activities that integrate social studies with reading and ELA to maximize your time.
  • use these pre-made, paired passages and reading comprehension activities as sub plans when you need to take a day (or week) off!
  • easily teach or assess student understanding by using multiple-choice questions that cover a variety of standards.
  • print and go or assign digitally – includes everything you need to teach, review, or assess paired passages (or paired texts) anytime during the year!

 

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Purchase the Paired Passages and Paired Texts Reading Comprehension Bundle for Grades 4-5 to get 6 different print and digital activities that will help your students compare and contrast passages with a similar theme and topic. Get 20% off by purchasing the bundle!

 

Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS):

RI.4.9

RI.5.9

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