Close Reading Informational Text Bundle for 4th – 5th Grade

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This Close Reading Using Informational Text Bundle for 4th – 5th Grade is a 105 page unit with handouts, posters, and 8 different passages (historical, biographical, scientific and technical texts) and a comprehensive set of 148 questions on Task Cards that teachers can use with any Close Reading text. All of these close reading activities are designed to help your students practice digging deeper into the text. Detailed teacher notes about the process of Close Reading are also included.

It includes:
Historical Text (3 pages each):
The Boston Tea Party
The TitanicBiographical Text (3 pages each):
Marco Pole
Harriet Tubman

Scientific Text (3 pages each)
Animal Camouflage
Polar Bears

Technical Text (3 pages for each)
How to Make a Dream Catcher
Dairy Farming (the story of milk)

4 Close Reading Posters
Handout on Annotations
Handout on the Close Reading Process for Teachers
Handout on the Close Reading Process for Students
2 Templates for Student Responses (can be used with any text)
Detailed Teacher Notes

The Close Reading Questions Stems Set contains:
44 Key Ideas and Detail Question Task Cards
44 Craft and Structure Question Task Cards
44 Integration of Knowledge and Key Ideas Question Task Cards
16 Evidence from the Text Task Cards
Handout on Annotations
Handout on the Close Reading Process for Teachers
Handout on the Close Reading Process for Students
Detailed Teacher Notes

SAVE MORE and GET MORE with this Close Reading Bundle!!!

Here are the units included in this bundle:
Close Reading Using Informational Text for 4th and 5th Grades
Task Cards: Close Reading Question Stems for Teachers

Why you’ll love this resource:

• The Question Stem Cards may be used for any text and are an organized way to have different levels of questions at your fingertips.
• The Question Stem Cards are color coded so you can easily find the type of question you want.
• The passages are high interest, Animal Camouflage or Marco Polo!
• You’re able to integrate social studies with reading, as some of the passages have historical themes.
• The detailed teacher notes will help guide you through the close reading process.

Need another grade?
Close Reading Bundle for 3rd Grade

Looking for other 4th/5th grade resources?
20 Fiction and Nonfiction Games for 4th/5th Grades
30 Grammar Games for 4th
30 Grammar Games for 5th
Character Education Kit

Thanks so much!
Jenn

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