Close Reading Desert Biome

Your students will have fun learning about the desert biome with this informational text passage and close reading activities. This resource includes everything you need for a week of reading, text dependent questions and close reading practice. High interest for students, low prep for teachers!

The desert reading passage is provided at 3 levels, making differentiation easy! The same factual content is included in all three levels, so you can provide students with the same content and use the same follow up questions and activities.

In addition to the differentiated reading passage, this resource also includes text dependent questions, vocabulary, graphic organizers and a writing response prompt.

This close reading resource includes:

• desert reading passage (differentiated at 3 reading levels)
• text dependent questions for the 1st read
• graphic organizer for the 1st read
• text dependent questions for the 2nd read
• graphic organizer for the 2nd read
• text dependent questions for the 3rd read
• written response prompt for the 3rd read
• teacher directions and sample weekly plan
• text annotation reference sheet and bookmark
• answer keys

This resource is perfect for building reading comprehension skills, practicing citing evidence and responding to writing.

Incorporate this close reading resource into your science unit on biomes, ecosystems, habitats or plant and animal adaptations for a multi-disciplinary approach to learning!

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