Christmas Reading Comprehension Passages with December Passages and Questions

This DECEMBER Reading Passage Bundle comes will FOUR close reading passages holiday season. These reading passages are the perfect way to keep your students engaged in the weeks leading up to Christmas break. This December, your students will love using these fun passages for the middle grades to learn what they never knew about the history of the candy cane, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the amazing reindeer, and the Christmas pickle tradition!

In addition to the differentiated Close Reading Passages, you will also receive an accompanying set of differentiated text dependent questions for each passage that will drive students back to the text to gain deeper understanding. Also included is 1 week of rigorous close reading activities, suggested pacing and lesson plans, teacher notes, and more!

This close reading bundle is a fantastic resource for upper elementary or middle school students. It is an excellent way to integrate ELA and is great for daily review, centers, mini-lessons, morning work, early finishers, or even whole class instruction.

Each of the FOUR Close Reading passages includes:

• 1 Informational Close Reading Passage (3 differentiated versions)
• 1 Text Dependent Question Assessment (3 differentiated versions)
• Suggested Lesson Plans and Pacing
• 1 Annotating Text Poster
• 1 What is Close Reading Page
• 1 3 Levels of Close Reading Page
• 1 Week of Close Reading Activities

1. KWL Pre-Read
2. What's The Main Idea?
3. Cause and Effect or Sequence
4. Read Between the Lines (inferencing)
5. The Most Important Things (summarization)
6. Opinion Writing Task
7. Final Thoughts (personal text response)

• 1 TDQ Answer Key
• 1 Writing Rubric for Opinion Writing

You are sure to have your kids digging deeply into text and extrapolating meaning through Close Reading!

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