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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Searching Informational Texts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Online lesson allows elementary students to use prior knowledge, make predictions, and perform research on the Internet. Labeled "The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character," lesson challenges students to examine print and online texts...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This lesson is a final step towards supporting young scholars to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually write a...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on the organization of your paper including how to write a thesis statement, the elements of an effective paragraph, patterns of organization, transitions, and conclusions. It also provides a video of the Toulmin...
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Other

Grade 1 Informative Writing Lessons

For Teachers 1st Standards
Authored by the Tsehai Russell and Della Wright, CLR fellows, this resource provides a 5-day unit of informative writing lessons. Focus lessons related to facts and opinions and paragraph writing. This series is supported by the Academic...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Researching Information: Comparing Electronic and Print Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This instructional activity allows students to compare and contrast print text structure with that of an online site. Students work together and use worksheets in comprehending the informational text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct...
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Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Understand Precise Vocabulary

For Students 4th Standards
A short explanation of the importance of using precise word choice in writing and using context clues to help you understand the meaning of precise words when reading. Click on Model to for an example with explanation and then click on...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will expand on your ability to read texts, synthesize them, and make choices based on the information you read. Finally, you will learn how to use textual...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creating Magazine Covers to Summarize Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will examine the ways in which a magazine cover's headlines and graphics express the main ideas of its articles. They will then use an interactive tool to create covers that summarize chapters of...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Graphic Organizers for Science Reading/writing

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
This resource provides multiple graphic organizers for reading and writing in the science content area. [Registration is required.]
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Cloud, Rain, and Fog

For Teachers 2nd
During these three days of lessons, 2nd graders will learn about weather from the nonfiction text by asking questions, and focusing on the text features of the book.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.3.2: Write Informative/explanatory Texts to Examine a Topic

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 56 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
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Grays Harbor College: Writing Essays: Four Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explores four tips for writers: "Center Your Thinking," "Organize Your Thinking," "Specify Your Thoughts," and "Present Your Thoughts Clearly." The information is presented in an easy-to-follow outline with examples given...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis: A Web Quest on Iran

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
This lesson focuses on students researching and learning about Iran's culture, society, and leadership before and after the 1979 Revolution in preparation for reading the graphic novel Persepolis. Students work in small groups to...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Learners begin this lesson by discussing what makes a good, vivid story and creating a working checklist of the criteria for a good story. They explore background information about the Mercury Theatre production of the "War of the...
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Other

Keys to Literacy: How to Write a Summary

For Students 7th Standards
Learn the seven steps to writing a summary of an informational text. Includes a summary template and completed examples.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Image to Narrative

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for learners of all levels.
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Mla Documentation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site outlines the basics of the MLA (Modern Language Association) style of documentation and includes links to handouts about in-text citations, the works cited page, and how to cite electronic sources. Several sample citations and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Guided Comprehension: Summarizing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Lesson that introduces students to the comprehension technique of summarizing. Students learn using the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) method which involves organizing information and putting it in writing.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: m.l. King, Jr.: Identifying With a Hero

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Lesson that attempts to help younger young scholars understand and identify with Martin Luther King, Jr. through reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities. Encourages students to attempt to live out King's "Dream," in their...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reading Instruction: Content Area Reading Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This website offers a free download of the Research-Based Content Area Reading Instruction booklet. The purpose of this booklet is to provide teachers with research-based and classroom-tested information about each of these aspects of...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Audience, Purpose, Language in Electronic Messages

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Lesson plan considers changes in writing style since the inception of e-mail and text messaging.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Comprehending Nonfiction Text on the Web

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for three lessons designed to improve comprehension of nonfiction, especially nonfiction texts on the web. It focuses on identifying text features, locating specific information, and generalizing that information. In...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Should Girls Be Allowed to Play High School Football?" by Josh Bean

For Students 5th - 6th
A learning module that begins with "Should Girls Be Allowed to Play High School Football?" by Josh Bean, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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EL Education

El Education: Sapling Rise a Micro Field Guide

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
Students create a field guide for a three foot by three foot plot of ground. Students name their plots, graph temperature, create an inventory and table to record observations, make illustrations, and write informational text based on...

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