Support your 4th graders in close reading practice that supports Common Core methodology. Each unit pairs leveled text sets and provides vocabulary, oral discussion, and writing activities. Downloadable home-school connection activities are included. This series provides rigorous reading, writing, and vocabulary activities for paired nonfiction and fiction texts. Each unit helps students:• Read a range of text types• Access complex text• Find and use text evidence• Analyze the texts through discussion• Write about the paired texts using opinion, argument, informative, and explanatory forms