After reading an informational or biographical text, have learners fill out this worksheet to check for basic understanding. Pupils write down the title of the text, the topic, a brief description, and the purpose.

Concepts

informational texts, biographies, author's purpose

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Fill this out together as you read a short text closely in class
• Provide some sentence starters to support learners more fully

Classroom Considerations

• This is more of a first step toward analysis; you would likely want to pair it with other materials and discussion when trying to help learners understand a text fully

Pros

• Requires learners to pay attention to the why of what they just read by asking them to write about the purpose
• Use this with any informational or biographical text

Cons

• None