1. Reading Closely Across Texts Read through lenses Choose a comparison-a GRAND detail: Characters or subjects Themes or central ideas Settings Authors Genres Other (Awards won, time period, social issues…) Then choose your texts: What other text fits with this chosen comparison? Use lenses to find patterns Decide how to compare: Text evidence Word choice Structure Point of view Then choose an excerpt from each text Use the patterns to develop a new understanding of the text What is a new idea you had about both books based on the lens you looked through? the author(s)’ choices? the messages these texts send?

2. Read through lenses Choose a comparison-A GRAND detail: Characters or subjects Themes or central ideas Settings Authors Genres Other (Awards won, time period, social issues…) Then choose your texts: What other text fits with this chosen comparison?

3. Use a lens to find patterns Decide how to compare: Text evidence Word choice Structure Point of view Then choose an excerpt from each text

4. Use patterns to develop a new understanding of the text What is a new idea you had about both books based on the lens you looked through? the author(s)’ choices? the messages these texts send?

5. Time Period: Westward Movement Genre: Historical Fiction Anchor- HM-4 th grade: Boss of the Plains HM -5 th grade: By The Shores of Silver Lake Choices- Little House on the Prairie series Prairie Songs The Birchbark Hous