Holiday close read passages, questions and a fun poems for your students to read and respond to!

This is a fun way for students to practice their close reading skills as well as expand upon their vocabulary while reading a nonfiction passage that teaches them about their favorite holidays! Also included is a fun, fiction poem that students can read and practice skills like rhyming and visualizing.

There are passages and poems for each of the following holidays:

Labor Day

Halloween

Veterans Day

Thanksgiving

Holidays Around the World

Martin Luther King Jr.

Valentine’s Day

Presidents’ Day

Read Across America

St. Patrick’s Day

Easter

April Fool’s Day

Earth Day

Cinco de Mayo

Mother’s Day

Father’s Day

4th of July

Enjoy!