Literary Passages: Close Reading: Grade 4: 20 Reading Selections With Text-Marking Exercises

Literary Passages: Close Reading: Grade 4: 20 Reading Selections With Text-Marking Exercises

• 20 Reading selections with text marking exercises
• Powerful tool for building comprehension skills
• Skills include describing characters, settings, key events and details, and story structure, identifying points of view, and more
• Available in various grade levels

<div>The higher standards expected today call for literacy instruction that focuses on the close reading of complex texts. In this book, twenty literary text passages are organized around high-interest topics connected to the curriculum and to key comprehension skills. Each reading is specially formatted to provide practice with text marking€"a proven, powerful tool for building comprehension skills, such as describing characters, settings, key events and details, and story structure; identifying points of view; determining the meaning of key vocabulary and figurative language; and making inferences.</div>