Close Reading with Paired Texts Gr. 5

Grade: 5

This resource features close-reading strategies, reciprocal teaching, paired fi ction and nonfi ction texts, text sets, text-dependent questions, and connections to the Daily Five. This book includes 12 units across the four content areas of Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics, a total of 24 texts. Each unit incorporates the following:

• Paired fiction & nonfiction text passages that deal with the same content
• Text-dependent activities that students complete after reading, comparing & contrasting of the fi ction and nonfi ction text passages
• Hands-on activities to pull together all of the ideas from a week’s worth of work
• Differentiation strategies and assessment options to tailor to multiple intelligences and monitor students’ progress.

Reproducible, 128 pages.