Description

Carnival / Circus Close Reading Comprehension Passages with Mystery Pictures, provided in both DIGITAL and PRINT formats, are designed to engage students in analyzing text using close reading comprehension strategies.  This resource motivates students to persevere through the multi-draft reading process with the use of the mystery grid picture, making it a fun activity that students will ask for again and again!

★ Get this as part of the All Access Reading Comprehension Passages with Mystery Pictures!

This Carnival set features three different texts, including a story about a tree circus, and passages about the history of the Ferris wheel and what happened to the circus!  Students will love learning about these Carnival-themed topics as they read 3 different texts: one fiction passage and two informational texts.

These texts are DIFFERENTIATED at three reading levels, so all students will be appropriately challenged!  As they complete the close reading process, students will build comprehension by answering text-dependent questions. Here’s the fun part: their answers to the questions will help them “decode” and color the corresponding carnival/circus themed mystery grid picture!

Graphic organizers and writing prompts are also included to enhance reading comprehension and can be used as you see fit!  Want to see for yourself? Check out the fun free passage in my Freebie Library to see how the text levels and questions can work for your classroom!

This activity is perfect for training students to read a text multiple times in order to truly understand it. By reading a text more than once, annotating it, and answering questions, students will learn to find and analyze:

• Author’s purpose
• Text structure
• Text-based evidence
• Central ideas

…And more!!

☆ Included in Every Set of Reading Comprehension Passages ☆

• Teacher Pages: explaining the different parts of the resource and how to use it in the classroom.
• Student Printables: print for the students to keep/use during the reading. Perfect for notebooks!
• 3 Different Texts: each having three levels of difficulty.
• 10 Text-Dependent Questions for each passage. Use with or without the mystery grid.
• 3 Writing Prompts: one for each passage
• 3 Mystery Grids: one for each passage
• Audio Files: audio for every passage included in digital versions and available for download
• Answer Keys: for the 10 text-dependent questions and the mystery grid.
• Graphic Organizers: as an option to use with any of the texts.

☆ Texts Included in this Resource ☆

☆ Options for Use in the Classroom ☆

Use these high-interest texts to practice close reading strategies, answering text-dependent questions, vocabulary, and responding to text in writing.

• Whole group
• Small groups
• Learning centers/stations
• Homework
• Sub Plans
• Test Prep
• Tutoring
• Room Transformations

Find out more on how to use them in the classroom:

• 9 Ways to Incorporate Close Reads Into Your Classroom
• 6 Ways to Make Close Reading More Engaging
• 12 Months of Close Reading

☆ TERMS OF USE – © Fun in 5th Grade & MORE ☆

This item is a paid digital download from Fun in 5th Grade & MORE

As such, it is for use in one classroom only. This item is also bound by copyright laws. Redistributing, editing, selling, or posting this item (or any part thereof) on the Internet is strictly prohibited without first gaining permission from the author. Violations are subject to the penalties of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Please purchase one license for each teacher using these resources. If you would like to contact me about pricing on a license for an ENTIRE school, county, or district, please email me at [email protected]

If you would like to contact me about pricing on a license for an ENTIRE school, county, or district, please email me at [email protected]