Description
Mentor Texts Reading Comprehension & Test Prep | Build strong readers with this engaging Mentor Texts Poetry & Reading Passages set featuring 11 high-quality poems, fables, and classic literature excerpts. This resource is designed to help students practice essential reading comprehension skills through close reading, discussion, and written responses using meaningful mentor texts.
Each passage includes student-friendly questions that guide readers to think deeply about the text while practicing skills commonly assessed on state tests and classroom assessments.
INCLUDED:
- Print and Go Version included
- Color and Black-and-White Options
- Answer Key Included – For easy grading and review
- 11 Quick Mentor Texts – Featuring fiction, fables, poetry, and more
- Versatile Graphic Organizers – Applicable to any text
SKILLS COVERED
- Main idea
- Summary writing
- Inference
- Character feelings & motivation
- Context clues vocabulary
- Cause and effect
- Text connections
- Moral / lesson
- and more
PERFECT FOR:
- Test Prep for: STAAR, PARCC, SBAC, STAR and more
- Small Group Literacy Stations
- Warm-up
- Homework
- Sub work
- Independent work
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Emily Bainbridge –
Looks great! Can’t wait for my 4th graders to practice with these! 🙂
Erika B. –
Excellent
Charity Pahl –
Very easy to use!
Lauren K. –
Very nice but hard for my third grade students to do individually during centers.
Cora L. –
Thank you
kristine C. –
This is great! Thanks!
Brooke B. –
Awesome
Tiffany Waller –
This is perfect and so easy to be able to just print and use. Thanks!
JoAnna Toto –
Helpful resource
Samantha P. –
Great resource!
Nafeesah M. –
Awesome!
Nicole Fultz –
Great resource…a bit difficult for many of my 3rd graders. It provided a challenge though! I like that there are excerpts from well-known novels.
Linda A. –
Awesome!!
Mandi D. –
Thanks for the download!
Miss R Sped Teacher –
Students love this resource! Great for independent work and small group. Kids have been requesting more of this!
Jessica E. –
I put them into folders and used them as an independent center.
Jennifer S. –
Loved the stories and the leveled stories. Great small group activity.
Amy C. –
Wonderful resource.
Tonya B –
Good resource.
Andria McCaul –
I used this as morning work to help prepare for the ELA end of year test. It was a good product.