This close reading passage is aligned with Common Core standards to let students have fun learning about April Fool’s Day, while also practicing their Reading Common Core skills. The activities are also designed to help create text-dependent students.

An answer key is provided.

This product also includes 3 separate writing prompts about the close reading passage. One prompt gives the students an opportunity to write an opinion piece. One prompt encourages them to do an informative piece. The third prompt allows them to be free and write a fiction or non-fiction narrative account.

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