Nonfiction Text – Close Reading Passage – The Hendersons Cancel Christmas

Description

This close reading passage is perfect for your middle schoolers! Students will love this true story, and will certainly have opinions and stories to share. This also makes a great sub plan or snow day assignment. It can be used as a traditional worksheet

What You Get:
*A lesson plan & ISN spread set-up
*A version of the reading with an annotation column
*A version of the reading without an annotation column
*A Comprehension Foldable with close reading questions that are Common Core-aligned
*An answer key/suggestions for open-ended questions

Lexile indicators:
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 8.4
Gunning-Fog Score 10.3
Coleman-Liau Index 11.6
SMOG Index 8.3
Automated Readability Index 8.3
Average Grade Level 9.4

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If you have any questions, I’d love to hear from you!
-Danielle @ Nouvelle ELA

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