Looking into Valentine’s Day: Close Reading Packet
“Exploring Valentine’s Day,” an informative packet, goes into great detail about the holiday’s long past, customs, and meanings. It has interesting pieces and talks about Valentine’s Day history, such as the story of Cupid, the history of Valentine cards, and famous Valentine’s Day customs. This packet is great for language arts, social studies, or cultural studies classes because it gets students thinking about how showing love and respect can mean different things in different cultures. This is especially important in February, right before Valentine’s Day, when people are talking about love, customs, and national events.
These close reading comprehension passages are the perfect no-prep, standards-based, and high interest way to strengthen your students’ close reading skills!
Short on time to teach? This print and go packet truly is for you! It has everything you need for a complete, successful informational text reading unit.
This Close reading set features:
Valentine’s Day
Valentine History
Love’s Day
Cupid’s Tale
Valentine Cards
Valentine Traditions
As they complete the close reading process, students will build comprehension by answering text-dependent questions.
Skills align with both the RI (Reading Informational Texts) and RL (Reading Literature) Common Core Standards
These passages can be used in the morning, at centers, as part of homework, with small groups, for extra learning with smart students, to help struggling students, or to get ready for tests.
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