Reading Closely Across Texts

Read through lenses Choose a comparison-a GRAND detail:• Characters or subjects• Themes or central ideas• Settings• Authors• Genres• Other (Awards won, time period, social issues…)Then choose your texts: What other text fits with this chosen comparison?

Use lenses to find patterns

Decide how to compare:Text evidenceWord choiceStructurePoint of viewThen choose an excerpt from each text

Use the patterns to develop a new understanding of the text

What is a new idea you had about both books based onthe lens you looked through?the author(s)’ choices?the messages these texts send?

Read through lenses

Choose a comparison-A GRAND detail:

• Characters or subjects• Themes or central ideas• Settings• Authors• Genres• Other (Awards won, time period, social issues…)

Then choose your texts:• What other text fits with this chosen comparison?

Use a lens to find patterns

Decide how to compare:•Text evidence•Word choice•Structure•Point of view•Then choose an excerpt from each text

Use patterns to develop a new understanding of the text

What is a new idea you had about both books based on•the lens you looked through?•the author(s)’ choices?•the messages these texts send?

Time Period: Westward MovementGenre: Historical FictionAnchor-• HM-4th grade: Boss of the Plains• HM -5th grade: By The Shores of Silver LakeChoices-• Little House on the Prairie series• Prairie Songs• The Birchbark Hous