This Close Reading - Desert Animals Edition TAB-ITS® resource includes 8 rigorous passages that will work perfectly for your second, third or fourth-grade classroom! And Now included is a Google Classroom activity for your Distance Learning and/or virtual teaching needs.
This resource would work perfectly if you are studying animals that live in different biomes as well. Each nonfiction close reading passage incorporates essential skills to attack the common core state standards.
The students will focus on key details, vocabulary development, craft and structure of the text, and integrating knowledge and ideas.
You can also differentiate this activity by allowing students to complete a graphic organizer and an expository writing piece for each animal as well.
These Close Reading Tab-Its® booklets are INTERACTIVE, FUN and fit perfectly inside of your interactive notebooks! Students reading on a Guided Reading Level J/K and higher will do very well with these close reading text passages.
This resource includes 8 Close Reading passages and text-dependent questions about:
- the armadillo
- the camel
- the fennec fox
- the jackrabbit
- the jerboa
- the rattlesnake
- the roadrunner
- the scorpion
The resource also includes:
- close reading annotation bookmarks {black & white}
- a blank lined page for the tab-its® booklet is also included for additional questions/answers or for paragraph writing
- Now included is a Google Classroom activity for your Distance Learning and/or virtual teaching needs.
