These close reading passages and activities about the new coronavirus called COVID-19 are the perfect tools to help students practice close reading skills during the month of April. This week-long lesson on What is COVID-19? An Outbreak That Took the World By Storm follows a close reading model and includes a teacher guide and notes to make teaching the lesson easy! Students will be required to use close reading skills to practice making logical inferences, citing textual evidence, and drawing conclusions from the text.

These differentiated informational text passages about the coronavirus called COVID-19 will engage students and spark interest! Through reading comprehension and close reading skills, students will learn how the COVID-19 virus spreads, the symptoms associated with the virus, how it is passed from one person to another, and how we can keep this virus and others from spreading and making more people sick.

PRINT & GO! Easily differentiate instruction with the leveled reading passages for grades 3-5. Includes everything you need to teach a week-long close reading lesson.

⭐A digital Google Classroom option is included! (Google Slides™)

⭐⭐Bundle and Save! This resource is also included in the following bundle. Close Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions | April Bundle

Close Reading Lesson:

What is COVID-19? An Outbreak That Took the World By Storm

This high-interest and engaging topic will captivate the interest of students!

Step-by-Step instructions (for teacher and students) are included that follows a close reading model.

Step 1: First Reading: Determine what the text says.

Step 2: Second Reading: Determine how the text says it.

Step 3: Third Reading: Determine what the text means.

Step 4: Written Comprehension: Write and Respond

Includes:

Implementation Guide (Steps to Close Reading)
Teacher Guide and Notes
Classroom Posters
Mark It Up! Annotation Cards
2 Differentiated Reading Passages
Text-Dependent Questions
Vocabulary Practice
Written Response
Close Reading Graphic Organizers

Easily Differentiate Instruction!

These close reading comprehension passages are written at 2 different levels to allow for differentiation during instruction. The content of the 2 passages are the same, but the reading levels are different. Questions about the content are the same. This makes it easy for you to provide students with the same questions and activity sheets while also allowing students to practice close reading skills on their reading level.

All answer keys are included!

⭐Note: Each reading passage is leveled with special symbols at the bottom left corner to denote difficulty levels.

This resource is aligned to the anchor standard that refers to reading text closely: ELA Reading Standard 1: “Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it, cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.”

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