Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Clarity of Objectives of a Procedural Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to analyze writing in software, warranty, and consumer manuals or publications.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate Graphics in Informational/procedural Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn to explain the function of the graphical components. You will also learn to evaluate graphics on how well they do what they are intended to do.
Read Works
Read Works: Lesson 3: Sequence Clue Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] Let's make a cake! Students will identify sequence words in a procedural text and use those clues to identify where the step belongs in a procedural text. The end result will be a yummy cake!
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Suki's Bone Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali
Based on the animated story "Suki's Bone" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, this lesson introduces children to informative/explanatory and procedural texts and the purposes they serve. In the video, Molly's dog Suki uncovers a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Relevant Information and Valid Inferences
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to make the information in your expository essays relevant and your inferences valid.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you how to write and organize an essay so that it addresses different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parentheses
This lesson focuses on parentheses. The three purposes for parentheses are to (1) set off parenthetical expressions or supplemental material, (2) create a list of numbered items in a series or steps in a procedure, and (3) create...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net: Flip Books and Story Boards
While this instructional activity is designed to aid in communications technology, the concept and procedure of the instructional activity can be readily used in any class. The main concept taught is organization and developing...
PBS
Pbs American Masters: Maurice Sendak: Imagination and Art
This PBS site contains two lesson plans. In grades K-2, read books written/illustrated by Maurice Sendak, find out what elementary school was like for Mr. Sendak, and write a class book based on one of his stories. In grades 6-8, learn...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fun Loving Frogs
During this lesson students will use their imaginations and writing skills to write a story from a wordless picture book, Tuesday, by David Wiesner. They will work in pairs and write text to go along with the pictures. They will also...