Close Reading Comprehension Bundle for Emerging Readers: 3rd, 4th, 5th Grade

The texts offer information about a variety of topics students will find fascinating and love reading about:

1. Waterfalls
2. Rickshaws
3. Trains & Locomotives
4. The Terracotta Warriors
5. Temples
6. The Lotus Flower
7. The Fishing Industry
8. Elephants
9. Bridges
10. Volcanoes
11. Monkeys

Use this close reading comprehension packet as a guided reading booklet for grades 3 to 5. It’s great for small groups or in intervention circles with students who are reading below grade level. It also works great for ESL and special education classes that focus on reading comprehension and reading interventions.

This is a dynamic one-to-one tool for reading support. Students read questions and then go to the texts to find the answers. You’ll love how the visuals easily keep their focus on the topics, giving them a frame of reference while they read. The student booklet is great for small groups, too. It also works online!

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✅ With text beautifully wrapped in visuals that support each topic, reading is not only made easier; it becomes memorable. Comprehension is helped by the graphical elements on the pages as your students use the text to look up information about the topics. Each topic has a large main image, which anchors the ideas in the reader’s mind. The smaller pictures and graphics on the pages provide support which help make comprehension a whole lot easier.

✅ Tailored to the needs of emergent readers in grades 3 to 5, these texts with visual support offer an accessible avenue for emerging bilinguals to explore interesting topics and learn relevant information about our world. With a focus on language acquisition and comprehension, the texts empower emerging bilinguals to develop their reading skills while gaining a deeper understanding of things like society, the environment, different countries, the natural world, and MORE.

✅ Each text is presented inside of a 5-page student booklet, which comes in a single PDF, so printing is easy. The topic always starts with a beautiful cover page. As students open the book, they’ll immediate see a ‘ready to read’ page that gives them advice for preparing to read effectively. Then, there is the information page with text and visual elements, a page with text-dependent questions with spaces for writing answers, and an answer page for responding to the extension tasks.

✅ Do you have a mixed group of ESL learners? This emergent reader bundle with visual support resource was designed to be used with mixed classes who require different levels of instruction. The comprehension questions help students who are at a lower-level understand the text, while the extension tasks challenge higher-level learners to read, learn, and apply what they learned.

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This package includes a 11 different resources, each in PDF files that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. You’ll get resource notes for all topics, a high-resolution student book, and a printer-friendly gray-scale student book. You’ll also get the digital versions of the student books on Google Slides®, which is great for distance learning or anytime you’re looking to save on printing costs.

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Terms of Use:

This resource was created by Landon S. Seigler of ESL Lifeline, all rights are reserved. The original purchaser is permitted to use it for a single class only. Teachers have the authorization to share this product with their students (and parents) through email, Google Classroom, or the Internet, as long as the site is password protected. Distribution to your own students is allowed, but uploading it to the Internet for public access and download is not permitted.

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