Paired Passages Unit: 5 Lessons Comparing Two Texts, Grades 5-6 Reading

Five days of paired passages, each lesson ready to teach and each built around its own pair of original texts. Students start by telling a firsthand account from a secondhand one, and finish by writing a paragraph that answers one question with cited evidence from both texts.

What's inside

• 5 lessons, one folder each, 78 slides in all: 16, 16, 16, 15 and 15 slides, with speaker notes on every slide
• 5 lesson plans, 2 pages each, each with a 25-minute version
• 5 paired-text sets, 2 pages each, one page per text: 10 texts in all
• 5 student worksheets, 2 pages each
• 5 answer keys, 1 page each
• 5 all-printables PDFs, one per day, ready to print: 7 pages each

Answer key included

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