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Better Lesson: Unit: The Author's Point Is

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will focus on Main Idea, Author's Purpose, Identifying supporting details and Organizing details. Students will read a variety of Informational Text (non-fiction) to understand how stated and implied main idea effect the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Paired Text Questions: "We Are Americans" and "Whoever You Are"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will compare information from the non-fiction book "We are Americans" and the book "Whoever You Are" to write or speak more knowledgeably about what large groups of people have in common.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Dewey Decimal Classification System Mural

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will select a book from an assigned section in the non-fiction area of the library. After reading the books, students will write a paragraph that summarizes the content area of the book. Students will illustrate the book that...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Play the Dewey Decimal System Game

For Teachers 1st - 5th
This lesson introduces the 10 main categories used in the Dewey Decimal Classification System for non-fiction bookshelf arrangement. A slideshow will be presented to learners to help them learn details about the Dewey Decimal...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Question and Answer Books From Genre Study to Report Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Contains plans for eight lessons that explore Question and Answer Books and ask students to do research in order to write their own. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Digging Up Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will read "Digging Up Dinosaurs" using the close reading technique. Young scholars will use graphic organizers to summarize the steps necessary to collect, study, and build a dinosaur skeleton.
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Siu Edwardsville: Professional Development Center: Lesson Plan: Inference [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Lesson teaching the use of word selection, context, structure, and specific references in making inferences within non-fiction texts.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Units: Teaching Units

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Complete teaching units (12) by grade level. CommonLit units are crafted to be both engaging and rigorous, featuring a variety of literary and informational texts from diverse sources. Reading, writing, and discussion are prioritized in...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Teaching With Nonfiction: Teach Text Features

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
A brief lesson plan, this site offers an example of non-fiction text and a graphic organizer to help orient students to the features they need to use when reading for information.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Connecting Ideas, Events, and Individuals

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers will analyze interactions between ideas, events, and individuals by creating a graphic organizer. They will utilize "I Never Had it Made" by Jackie Robinson for this activity.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Discovering Ourselves in Literature and Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages pupils to evaluate literature in a variety of multimedia formats and answer the question, "Who Am I?," Students are then asked to...
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TES Global

Tes: Guided Reading Resources: Nonfiction

For Teachers 2nd - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This learning module contains several guided reading resources. Students will be able to use the charts to guide themselves as they discuss informational texts and persuasive texts. Teachers can monitor...

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