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These paired passages, or paired texts, meet the demand for more complex texts that students can use to compare and build knowledge to integrate information and draw conclusions. The high-interest, rigorous passages in this set are great to stretch your 4th and 5th graders, and still appropriate for many students in middle school as well. The passages in this set are differentiated. Two levels are provided: on grade level for 4-5 and on grade level for 6-7.
I have included printable AND Google App formats of the passages along with the multiple-choice and constructed response questions. There are seven multiple-choice questions (each question assessing a different standard) and one constructed response/essay question PER PAIR.
The printable passages are provided in two styles: article (two column) as well as full page.
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This set contains two pairs of informational passages and one nonfiction/fiction poem pair (six total passages) about these animals.
⭐️ bats: megabats and microbats
⭐️ owls: hunting and eating, and life cycle
⭐️ spiders: informational passage about the good and bad, and the poem, “The Spider and The Fly”
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Click here to see a blog post showing how I model purposeful annotating!
INFO ABOUT THE DIGITAL FILES:
The assessments are provided in Google FORMS. The multiple-choice options will be shuffled for each student, and the items will be automatically scored.
The passages are provided in Google SLIDES and can be annotated by adding text boxes. Students could use lines to underline or draw arrows with the line tool. I have also inserted a “highlight box” on the title of each passage. Show students how to select the box, then copy and paste it to use for highlighting purposes in the text. They can resize the box by dragging the corners to highlight only what they need.
You could allow the students to use their annotated passages for their assessments by having them share the screen (or “split screen”) for both files. I have also included the passages at the top of the assessments.
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Excellent resource!
I love the rigor of these passages, while keeping the fun and excitement of the animals. Thank you!
Great resource
Great resource! Met the needs of my class. Thank you for the time and effort you put into creating this.
Jivey does it again!
I absolutely love Ideas by Jivey’s paired passages! She is the queen of making high interest, engaging resources that kids actually want to read so you can teach this skill. Keep them coming!
Excellent resource that offers fun topics
Great resource and fun ways to work with students using context clues.
Super resource for speech and language therapy
This resource works well for in-person sessions and for teletherapy.
Great Resource
This is a great resource. Easy to use and engaging. My kids enjoyed it!
Great Paired Reading
These were great resources for paired reading! My students loved them!
Awesome Paired Texts!
I have not been anything other than pleased with the resources I've purchased from this TPT Seller. I am so appreciative of those of you out there that create these things for us!
This is great for my older students
This resource was great to use as informational writing practice.
Great Source
I used this score for when we went over comparing two different things. We started small then went into reading passages. It was a great topic between the two. We did this during October to go along with Halloween.
My students struggled with finding text evidence, especially when referencing paired passages. The content was very engaging and they enjoyed learning more. Great resource!
This resource was extremely helpful. My students were engaged and learned a lot.
My students loved these passages and were able to read independently
My students enjoyed these passages and were highly engaged with them. It was a great addition to my bat and spider thematic units.
I have used this resource more than once, in both Gen Ed and in ELL. The passages are just the right size and perfect for both modeling and practice. Great resource.
These are engaging passages that give the students the opportunity to synthesize information from different texts.
Thank you for this resource. I liked the passages and the questions.
Well done for use with a student who required parallel materials.
This is an awesome resource! Thanks so much for all of your hard work!
My students loved these texts and there's nothing better than engaging readers for sometimes reluctant readers.
Great resource. I used this with my students close to Halloween.
