4th Grade Close Reading Passages - Teaching and Tapas

Standards-Based

4 G R A D E

CLOSE

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WHATis this?

If you already have my

Main Close Reading Pack,

Then this

Add-On Extension Pack

can be used for your students reading below grade level (or to be used at the beginning

of the school year).

This add-on ONLY includes the passages written at a lower level and modified answer keys. You still need the MAIN CLOSE READING PACK.

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These are SIMPLIFIED texts

The products in the original pack are meant to be CHALLENGING. They are good for 4th graders who read at grade level. But what about your struggling readers or students reading BELOW GRADE LEVEL?

The passages in this extension pac. k

are simplified and shorter. Every text in this extension pack has a Lexile level between LL 540 ? 690 which may help your students who are reading below grade level (or at the beginning of the school year).

Just use the QUESTION AND ACTIVITY PAGES from the original product with these simplified passages!

LEXILE LEVEL

WORD COUNT

ORIGINAL PACK

LOWER LEVEL EXTENSION PACK

LEXILE LEVEL

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TEXT EVIDENCE

q Do You Get Enough Sleep? q The World's Deserts q Egypt: History and Mystery q Man's Best Friend q Talking Plants?

MAIN IDEA

q The World at Night q Can We Float Like a Duck? q School's Out For Summer! q Healing Power of Wolves q Saving Daylight

CONNECTIONS

q Brontosaurus: The Mixed Up Dinosaur q Do Mountains Really Grow? q Why Do Leaves Change Colors? q Cacao to Chocolate q American Explorers: Lewis and Clark

VOCABULARY

q Can We Drink Salk Water? q Bats q How Much Do You Know About Water? q The World's Oceans q Dinosaurs: Warm Blooded or Cold Blooded?

TEXT STRUCTURE

q The Clean Up Crew q What's Happening to the Polar Bears? q Rise to the Challenge: Helen Keller q Oil Spill in the Gulf q Women in Space

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These are SIMPLIFIED texts

The question and activity pages from the original pack work seamlessly with the simplified

passages from this extension pack.

ORIGINAL PACK

LOWER LEVEL EXTENSIO N PACK

LEXILE LEVEL

WORD COUNT

LEXILE LEVEL

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POINT OF VIEW

q Remembering the Great Depression q The Great Depression

q Bears q Bears Up Close

q The Berlin Wall q My Side of the Wall

q Cartwheels to Gold Medals q All Eyes on Gabby Douglas

q Man on the Moon! q The Steps That Changed Us All

IMAGES AND DIAGRAMS

q Ring of Fire q Michael Phelps: Body Advantage? q Louis Pasteur and Germ Theory q How the Potato Conquered the World q Can Heart Attacks Be Prevented?

REASONS AND EVIDENCE

q Do Forests Need Fires? q Sharks: The Ecosystem Needs Them! q Nature's Little Helpers q The Year-Round School Debate q Conserve Helium

INTEGRATE INFORMATION

q Sporting Pride! q Pay Your Athletes

q We Need Nature Reserves q Just Say No to Reserves

q The Honeybee q What Do You Know About Honeybees?

q Phones in Schools? q Give Them Phones!

q Yes to Second Languages! q More Than One Language?

q Sporting Pride! q Pay Your Athletes

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