This paired passages collection is the perfect addition to your lesson plans as you work with practicing comparing and contrasting skills or on any unit where students are working on fiction and non-fiction text. This unit includes six low-prep and 100% digital lessons. Everything you need for each lesson is included, and each one is quick and easy to set up.
This Paired Passages Collection is a mini-unit designed to be a fun and interactive way to teach and review literature and nonfiction reading skills. It includes tons of examples of graphic organizers and activities to guide your students as they read, annotate, and respond to reading-paired passages.
Here's what's included:
- Six mini-lessons
- Digital and PDF teaching slides for each lesson
- Worksheets and student pages for each lesson
- Examples of each task.
Your students will love learning, reviewing, and applying their learning about reading skills using these scaffolded skill based lessons. Each lesson builds on the previous one to allow you to increase the rigor each day while also having varied activities and assessments to keep students engaged.
The activities that accompany these lessons are 100% done for you. You will simply need to print what you need or assign copies of the student's notebook in Google Classroom. Some lessons can be printed, prepped, and used year after year.
Prep is quick and easy... Print the student pages, set up your example or slides to be displayed, and teach each scaffolded lesson.
The six lessons are:
- Paired Passages Lesson 1: Introduction to Paired Passages
- Paired Passages Lesson 2: Review and Practice Annotation
- Paired Passages Lesson 3: Practice with Fiction Passage
- Paired Passages Lesson 4: Practice with Non-Fiction Passage
- Paired Passages Lesson 5: Compare Paired Passages
- Paired Passages Lesson 6: Extension: Reading Response
