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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 three pairs of informational passages (six total passages) about the Titanic.
⭐️ a summary of the ship and what it was like on the voyage
⭐️ a timeline of the ship, and discovering the wreckage
⭐️ two biographies of women- one first-class and one third-class- both survivors
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WHY TEACHERS LOVE THESE PAIRED TEXTS:
SEE IT IN ACTION:
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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My Students loved this.
This was very helpful in our review for SBAC testing.
Great resource!
This resource was well-organized, easy to implement, and engaging for my students.
Interesting Topic
Used this with a middle school age student during a tutoring session. We are working on improving her writing. This resource provided a lot of background knowledge so she had something to write about. The information was engaging.
Great resource
Thank you. This was helpful and easy to follow. My students enjoyed it.
This helped me in the classroom with a standard that students typically struggle with. We do a unit on this time in history and they are fascinated with the Titanic so this useful for me in covering a harder standard with a topic they enjoy reading about.
I used this resource to accompany my unit on the Titanic!
Love all of Ideas by Jivey’s paired texts!! These on the Titanic helped build my students’ knowledge and kept them engaged in learning.
Used this resource when we had a mini-unit on the Titanic. It was great.
My students enjoyed using this resource to learn in a new way!
Great activity for fourth graders. Very easy to use for ELL students.
This was a wonderful resource for our 4th grade Titanic study!
Great resource for paired texts on the Titanic! My students enjoyed getting to read multiple texts on the same topic to compare.
Thank you for taking the time to make this. It was well thought out and worked out well for me, my students, and our needs.
Difficult for my lower readers but I'm going to use with my gifted readers next year!
Another excellent resource from Jivey! Anything about the Titanic is always of interest to kids, and these pieces help build background knowledge.
This is a great resource. I enjoyed using this in my classroom.
This was a fantastic and engaging resource! My students love learning about the Titanic and this was the perfect resource for in class reading instruction!
My students loved the Titanic unit and this was a terrific resource to use with it!
My Titanic fans are totally into these stories. Great resource!
This was a great supplemental resource! Kids loved the Titanic stories!
This has been so helpful for my paired text unit. Thank you!
Well done! Thank you for creating this useful resource.
A great activity that was low prep and super informative.
These passages are very adaptable for students and really push the higher students to the next level.
