Reading Informative Text Lesson Plans & Worksheets

New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards

How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...

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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards

How can opinions slant facts? Workshop participants learn how to examine primary and secondary sources and identify the author's point of view. They also examine how visual art impacts the meaning and rhetoric of sources. Full of...

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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 11

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards

You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful lesson plan. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about primary and...

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Cengage Learning

National Geographic: Informational Text and Young Children [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Research-based informative article on when, why and how to introduce and teach reading skills with informational texts to early-elementary students beginning as early as kindergarten.

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EL Education

El Education: Learning to Read Informational Texts: Building Background

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards

In this comprehensive unit, students launch their learning about birds by using informational texts. As students read these texts, they build background knowledge and develop their skills as readers of informational texts. Included are...

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Audience, Tone, and Style in Informative Text

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards

Students will read samples of informative writing and highlight examples of how tone and style are used by the authors. Students will then apply this knowledge by writing their own informative text. Multiple examples of student work and...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Using Features of Literary & Informational Text to Guide Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A learning module that teaches students about using text features to guide reading in three mini lessons: Engaging with Text, Literary Think-Aloud, and Informational Think-Aloud. Download a PDF with lesson plans and printable handouts...

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Other

Corwin Press: Chapter 7: Informational Text Lessons in First Grade

For Teachers 1st Standards

This chapter provides guided informational text lessons for first graders. Differentiation and management tips are provided, along with steps to use while implementing these lessons.

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building World Knowledge: Informational Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Before, during, and after-reading ideas for introducing students to informational texts in the early-elementary grades in order to boost reading achievement through the upper-elementary grades.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Claim Evldence Reasoning [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will identify a claim, list text evidence that supports the claim, and explain how the information can be used for their future understanding of...

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Utah Education Network

Uen: Using a Before Reading Organizer With Informational Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This module provides strategies to use with informational text. Teachers will explicitly teach students about graphic organizers to use before reading informtational texts.

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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Read Like This: Using Informational Text Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

In this module practice working with informational text.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading Informational Texts Using the 3 2 1 Strategy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Learners can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.

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Read Works

Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Text Kindergarten Unit: Labeled Diagrams

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach students how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...

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Prezi: Informational Text (Text Structures)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

Slideshow introduces the concept of informational text or text structure.

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International Literacy Association

Ila: Unlocking the Power of Informational Text With Five Creative Ideas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Five easy ways to help unlock the power of informational text for all students.

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Scholastic

Scholastic Teaching Resources: Informational Reading Response [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards

This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write three facts they learned, two questions they still have after reading, and one interesting fact that they want to share.

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Main Ideas & Details [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write the main idea in a central oval and then write four details that support the main idea of this reproducible graphic organizer.

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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Worksheet 8: Smart Phones

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This is a PDF worksheet that provides six reading passages related to smart phones to help your students master text structure (patterns of organization) in informational text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds

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CommonLit

Common Lit: Women in Ancient Rome

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

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