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\n2020 Election Lesson Plans\n

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\nWith all the hyperbole of an election year, it can be difficult to find the facts, just the facts about candidates, issues, and ballot measures. Young political scientists, with the help of 21 resources from a nonpartisan, information...\n
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\nAbigail Adams, the Writer: “My pen is always freer than my tongue.”\n

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\nSixteen lessons from the Massachusetts History Society comprise the “Abigail Adams, the Writer: ‘My pen is always freer than my tongue’” unit. Each lesson has scholars examining Adams’ letters and diaries to gain an understanding of what...\n
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\nTeach Text Features & Read Nonfiction\n

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\nElementary schoolers examine the components of reading nonfiction. They use think-alouds to help them complete reading the selected sections. They also identify text features as they read.\n
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\nNonfiction Text Features Poster Set\n

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\nIdentifying nonfiction text features is a skill students can take to any subject. A packet of posters demonstrate different text features that learners would encounter in a textbook or informational article, encouraging pupils to think...\n
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\nIdentifying Text Features of a Self-Written Fable\n

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\nMake learning the parts of a book fun by having pupils construct their own glossary entries, table of contents, and title page. Beginning with a review of text features and a hunt for examples, kids use previously written fables to...\n
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\nText Features of Fiction, Poetry, Drama: Story Matrix\n

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\nHow do novels differ from plays? Explore with your class the text features of fiction and drama by reading The Hidden One: Native American Legend and then performing a reader’s theater script based on the story. Class members create a...\n
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\nInformational Text Features \n

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\nHow can you tell if the text you're reading is informational or narrative? Show your reading class this basic PowerPoint to illustrate the characteristics of an informational text. What makes this presentation especially effective is...\n
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\nUsing Text Features\n

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\nInvestigate a \"table of contents\" with your students! They read the table of contents in Deserts by Darlene R. Stille and predict where the answers to specific questions might be found. Learners complete a worksheet in which they find...\n
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\nUnderstanding Informational Text Features\n

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\nEverything you need to know about informational text features can be found in this resource. Recognizing these types of text features and how they are used in text allows readers to better understand information. Teachers...\n
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\nUsing Informational Text Features and Learning Freaky Frog Vocabulary\n

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\nWhat kind of text features help children build a strong vocabulary? Class members use text features such as headers to unpack new vocabulary words. They create vocabulary journals in which they will write what they think the definition...\n
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\nInformational Text Features: Analyzing “Hawaii’s Endangered Happy Face Spider”\n

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\nSome things are better the second time around. Scholars reread an article about Hawaii's happy face spider, answering text-dependent questions as they read. Then, they use a Venn diagram to compare the text features of interviews and...\n
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\nCooperative Classroom Text Features Activities\n

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\nFifth graders examine text features and create a PowerPoint presentation. In this text features lesson, 5th graders go over Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures and text features before they choose one to include in a book and...\n
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\nUsing Text Features\n

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\nFourth graders read a nonfiction story that is presented to them with graphic features, and presented to them with only the text.  For this text features lesson, 4th graders decide what the benefits of text organizers are and create...\n
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\nIntroduce: Comprehension Monitoring using About Trees\n

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\nAs scholars begin reading more difficult text, they need to acquire an arsenal of comprehension strategies. Here are few helpful ones to guide new readers through the informational text About Trees, which is linked here for...\n
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\nIdentify Text Features in Nonfiction\n

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\nWhat does a non-fiction text look like? Examine the text features of non-fiction. Middle and high schoolers read non-fiction passages provided by their instructor and analyze the texts for word choice, details, and organization.\n
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\nLesson 4: Text Features\n

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\nThe ability to use text features effectively can translate to many texts and purposes. Show your class these tools while working with the biography Lost Star: The Story of Amelia Earhart. Explore the different text features within the...\n
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\nNonfiction Text Features\n

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\nIdentify features of a nonfiction article in this language arts lesson plan. Middle schoolers apply comprehension strategies as they read the parts of the article, and analyze the author's key points. Additionally, they examine...\n
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\nReading Comprehension: History of the Periodic Table\n

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\nAlthough the article that launches this lesson is about the history of the Periodic Table, the objective is reading comprehension. Using the eight-page informational text, learners answer five comprehension questions and craft one essay....\n
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\nNative American Poetry\n

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\nIdentify text features, make inferences, and discover the cultural significance of Native American Poetry. Sixth graders read several Native American poems and use graphic organizers and literature response logs to record their feelings...\n
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\nIdentifying Information in Nonfiction\n

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\nSecond graders investigate information in non-fiction texts. They review the features of a non-fiction text and read the book Nature's Food Chains: What Polar Animals Eat. Pupils discuss the text features and write down one fact they...\n
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\nText Features of a Story\n

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\nBring the enjoyable story of Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock by Eric A. Kimmel to your young readers. After reading the story as a class, students answer questions about a reading and make a graphic organizer.  They make...\n
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\nComprehension: Expository Text Structure, Text Feature Find\n

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\nIdentifying How Text Features Support Arguments: “The Exterminator\"\n

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\nHalf and half. Split the class in half to gain a full understanding of sidebars. Pupils work in groups to discuss sidebars in text. Half of the groups read Seriously Sick, and the other half reads Killer Genes. They read using...\n
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\nScience Worksheets\n

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\nIf you need an array of worksheets to augment your science lessons, peruse a collection of assignments that is sure to fit your needs. With topics such as metric conversion, the scientific method, textbook features, research skills,...\n
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