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Info Passages for Text Marking & Close Reading
Navigating nonfiction reading can be a challenge, but is an absolutely necessary skill. These reproducible, grade-level workbooks contain 20 activities designed to help strengthen students' reading comprehension skills using a basic but valuable technique: marking text. Students learn to recognize context clues such as adverbs (before, finally), phrases (In my opinion, because of), etc. Students also learn to recognize key reading elements: main idea, fact/opinion, sequence, cause/effect, comparison/contrast, contextual clues, problem/solution, inferences, summary and the author's purpose. Students read a one-page passage, mark (according to directions) certain aspects in the passage with boxes, circles, underlines, etc., and then answer comprehension questions on the next page. Includes teacher's directions, answers and comprehension skill summary cards to cut out. Supports the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading. 63 pp, sc. ~ Ruth
