How can an author's choice of text type reinforce ideas or themes in a story?
Close Reading Pack, Grade 6, Literary Text
In this Close Reading Pack, students read stories in different text types that show characters being brave, selfless, clever, and strong in different ways. Students must read closely to understand the story and to locate evidence to support their answer to the Key Question.
Student Resources
Student Passages
A Quiet Hero
Low
The Winter of Our New Hats
Medium
The Screaming Mystery
Medium
Ballad of John Henry
High
Connecting Passage
Odysseus and the Cyclops
Medium
