Romeo & Juliet Close Reading Bundle (Set of 20)

This bundle of 20 close reading exercises promotes active reading strategies, makes student engagement with text more visible, and helps improve overall student comprehension of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. By completing these activities, students will read to identify what the text says explicitly and implicitly, apply literary devices, interpret figurative expressions, analyze character motivations, define vocabulary in context, discern tone, and more. All close reads are editable and include answer keys and/or sample annotations.

The following are covered:

• Act 1 prologue
• Act 1, scene 1
• Act 1, scene 2
• Act 1, scene 3
• Act 1, scene 5
• Act 2 prologue
• Act 2, scene 1
• Act 2, scene 2
• Act 2, scene 3
• Act 2, scene 4
• Act 2, scene 5
• Act 2, scene 6
• Act 3, scene 1
• Act 3, scene 2
• Act 3, scene 3
• Act 3, scene 4
• Act 4, scene 1
• Act 4, scene 3
• Act 4, scene 5
• Act 5, scene 1
• Act 5, scene 3