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Understanding Informational Text Features OrganizerUnderstanding Informational Text Features Organizer
Publisher
Mark Twain Media
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6th - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Projection
Year
2010
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Understanding Informational Text Features

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  • Informational Text
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Everything you need to know about informational text features can be found in this resource. Recognizing these types of text features and how they are used in text allows readers to better understand information. Teachers can use this as background knowledge or as a teaching tool to help facilitate instruction. Middle schoolers will put their understanding of each topic in a series of skill checks pertaining to elements of nonfiction text.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

informational texts, compare and contrast, nonfiction, nonfiction text features, text features, sequences, main ideas, supporting details, nonfiction texts, text structure, charts, headings, the table of contents, glossary, index, illustrations, organizing information

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Project this information to your class to help facilitate instruction

Pros

  • Establishes a foundation for understanding organizational text structures including, cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, and sequential ordering
  • Answer keys included

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.6.1 RI.6.4 RI.6.5 RI.6.8 RI.7.1 RI.7.4 RI.7.5 RI.7.8 RI.8.1 RI.8.4 RI.8.5 RI.8.8

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