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High school informational text worksheets under $5
Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt Summarizing Informational Text Graphic
✨BEST-SELLER✨ This nonfiction graphic organizer works w/ any type of informational text or nonfiction passage: use it again & again. Students love the non-fiction text activities like the Nonfiction Text Features scavenger hunt & the fun dice Nonfiction Game | Nonfiction Reading response worksheet. Perfect for summarizing nonfiction text, teaching nonfiction reading skills, nonfiction centers, no-prep sub-plans, close reading, teaching nonfiction reading strategies, informational writing
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4th - 10th
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Current Event Article Close Reading, Informational Text, PDF & Google Drive CCSS
Need more informational text-based lessons in your classroom? This print-and-go worksheet is the perfect little tool to use as a weekly, occasional, or extra credit assignment. You can either provide an article for your students to work through as a class or assign students to find their own article to use as the basis of the lesson. Whether you use this handout as an in-class assignment to use with copies of your local newspaper, take kids to the computer lab to find an online article, or assig
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Nonfiction Reading Comprehension - Articles and Reading Response Assignments
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension - Articles and Reading Response Assignments: Bring engaging nonfiction articles with modern topics for teens into your classroom with this ready-to-use reading comprehension resource. This packet features links to articles on modern topics that resonate with teens like texting, tanning, Twitter, energy drinks, and reality TV! The articles are accompanied by five comprehensive reading comprehension assignments. Whether used as homework readings or in-class lesson
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7th - 10th
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Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe short story non-fiction multimedia PDF & Google
Use “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe to teach your students the elements of literary analysis, get them thinking deeply about the gothic short story’s text, and provide opportunities for real-world connections to this grisly story via a high-interest informational text/article about a criminal’s successful use of the “not guilty by reason of insanity” defense. This two-day lesson includes step-by-step suggestion procedures (great to leave for a sub), a full-text copy of the public domain
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6th - 9th
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Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe short story + non-fiction, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS
Use “The Black Cat” by American Gothic/Dark Romantic writer Edgar Allan Poe to teach your students the elements of literary analysis, get them thinking deeply about the short story's text, and provide opportunities for real-world connections to this grisly story via a 2009 newspaper article (link included) and critical reading activity. This two-day lesson plan includes a full-text copy of the story, a 10-question deep-thinking exercise (with detailed answer key, of course), and a real-world inf
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Identifying Non Fiction Text Structures Practice Pack
In today's day and age it is incredibly important that our students can recognize and describe the text structures that they experience in their reading. Teaching students to recognize the underlying structure of texts can help readers focus attention on key concepts, relationships, and anticipate what's to come.Each double sided sheet provides a list of possible text structure, clear (yet challenging) examples for students to label, and space for them to provide the clues/reasoning they used fo
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5th - 11th
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Citing Textual Evidence Practice Growth Mindset Activities for Middle School
Are you looking for ways to practice citing textual evidence while teaching your stidents about growth mindset? These growth mindset activities for middle school, focusing on reading comprehension, citing text evidence and writing with evidence will help. This resource includes print and digital (Easel and Google Drive) materials to explore growth mindset. Students will love gaining a greater understanding of how their brains work when they learn new information. You will love covering your rea
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6th - 9th
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Compare and Contrast the Author's Point of View BigFoot
Close ReadingPoint of ViewCompare and ContrastDoes Bigfoot exist? Or is he just a made up legend? Students will read two nonfiction articles to compare and contrast both sides of the Bigfoot debate! This is a fun, but educational, lesson. Included is BOTH print and digital versions.I wrote this lesson because I wanted an interesting topic that would catch my students' attention. I also was frustrated trying to find articles that showed a clear point of view about a similar topic. I wanted no
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4th - 9th
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Also included in: Close Reading Lesson Bundle: A Year of Close Reading
Cancer Sniffing Dogs - Sub Plan / Science Reading #5 (Google Slide & PDF)
This science article / sub plan comes in two versions (with answer key): 1) easily printable PDFs, as well as 2) Google Slides for distance learning. Students can type in their answers directly in the Google Slides. This resource spans two pages in total with 1 and 1/3 pages of article and 2/3 pages of questions. It is information rich and written to engage even reluctant readers. The two page format makes it economical for printing and provides a length that students willingly read and complete
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7th - 12th
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The Science of Sleep - Sub Plan / Science Reading #15 (Google Slide & PDFs)
This science article / sub plan comes in two versions (with answer key): 1) easily printable PDFs, as well as 2) Google Slides for distance learning. Students can type in their answers directly in the Google Slides. This resource spans two pages in total with 1 and 1/3 pages of article and 2/3 pages of questions. It is information rich and written to engage even reluctant readers. The two page format makes it economical for printing and provides a length that students willingly read and complete
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7th - 12th
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Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice
Do your students know how to adequately show evidence from the text when they are asked? We often take for granted that students automatically know how to do this.Use my Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice resource to help your students! This resource includes a visual aid to help students remember, as well as three nonfiction passages with questions to practice citing evidence from the text. Suggested answers for each question (and identification of evidence from the passag
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: All of my Reading Resources (Fiction / Nonfiction) Growing Bundle
Expository, Non-Fiction Lesson on Modern Issues: Fear Factors, Grades 8-12, CCSS
The Common Core has a much-greater focus on non-fiction, informational texts in the English/Language Arts classroom. It’s time to start adding more real-world articles and materials to our literary canon. In this easy-to-deliver non-fiction activity, students will read an interview-based article by Allegra Ringo (link included) and complete a series of deep-thinking questions. Afterward, students will definitely have personal opinions to share about this “Let’s Get Real” classroom activity.When
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8th - 11th
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The Feather Pillow Horacio Quiroga, Lit. Analysis + Non-Fiction PDF & Google App
Introduce your students to Horacio Quiroga, a master of suspense who will forever change the way they look at their pillows and mattresses with his famous story of everyday horror, “The Feather Pillow.”This 9-page PDF (with Google Drive version of all student handouts) includes:• Suggested lesson procedure page• Full text of “The Feather Pillow,” a wonderfully creepy public domain short story by Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga. (English translation)• Handout of questions/discussion starters for
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8th - 11th
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Internet Research: How to Search, Select, Cite Credible Sources
How do you use a search engine, like Google or Bing, to locate information online? What we assume comes naturally for our students of the Digital Age is actually a complex process that requires instruction and scaffolding. Students need guided practice in this process that requires many skills and decisions.This product teaches students the basic information and gives them the practice needed to become a skilled online researcher. (*Note - several of the pages and ideas in this product are dupli
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Reading Bundle - Middle School Grades 6 - 8
Argumentative Essay Organizer: Claim, Reasons, Evidence (Includes Fillable PDF)
You've found the perfect graphic organizer—complete with a fillable PDF option—to help students visually and clearly connect the integral elements of any persuasive, argumentative, and informative essay: from the claim, reasons, evidence, and conclusion, students can better organize and map out their thinking while understanding the general essay structure. There is space for three reasons and subsequent evidences in support of these reasons. Language frames between the connections (e.g., becaus
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4th - 12th
Edgar Allan Poe Author Study Worksheet, PDF & Google Drive, Poe Biography CCSS
Skip the typical Edgar Allan Poe introduction lecture and empower students to find their own interesting facts about this author’s life with the “Author Bio” print/post-and-teach activity.This single-page worksheet (includes both PDF & Google Drive versions) is a powerful research organizer that’ll get students digging deep into Poe’s background.Please note: This download does NOT include a specific article or links to defined articles. It is an organizer tool for students to use as they con
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6th - 11th
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Italian Renaissance Writers & Artists Reading & Art Activity: Print & Digital
This document comes with a 4 page reading highlighting Dante, Petrarch, Masaccio, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and Brunelleschi. There are two individuals per page with questions at the bottom of each page, so you can do it as an all-in-one activity or space them out. It can also be printed and sent home in a packet for distance learning. There are three fun drawing/writing activities at the end to increase engagement.Multiple Formats: I have it in multiple forma
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8th - 12th
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Unbroken, Farewell to Manzanar, Compare & Contrast Non-Fiction, PDF & Google App
Get teens excited about non-fiction with this two-day lesson featuring a compare-and-contrast of two gripping stories from World War II. First, read an excerpt of Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand’s New York Times bestselling biography of Olympic runner and Army Air Corps P.O.W. Louie Zamperini. Then, introduce your students to a family confined to a Japanese internment camp in California’s Death Valley, as documented in Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s memoir Farewell to Manzanar.Don’t have class sets of e
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8th - 11th
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INFORMATIONAL TEXT LESSON {Analyzing A Magazine Article: Social Media for Teens}
Through studying a magazine article, students will see how genre and intended audience will shape the style, content and tone of a piece of writing. **************************************************************************OTHER WAYS TO BUY THIS LESSON1) Get this in my INFORMATIONAL TEXT BUNDLE & * SAVE* 20%!2) Buy it in my 60+ ELA Lessons MEGA BUNDLE & * SAVE* 30%!**************************************************************************This lesson could be used as part of a larger uni
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7th - 9th
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Also included in: Analyzing Informational Texts: Lessons BUNDLE
Mister Rogers Real World Rhetoric Analysis Mr. Rogers Senate Speech PDF + Google
Show your students a real-world application of the tools of rhetoric (ethos, pathos, and logos) as they examine the 1969 U. S. Senate subcommittee address given by Fred Rogers, host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, in support of public broadcast funding. The speech, filled with Mister Rogers’ warmth and kindness as he secures $20 million in funding for public television, is a high-interest way to add the non-fiction analysis skills emphasized by the Common Core to your classroom.Students will lea
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Comprehensions for Star Wars Day, "May the 4th be with you"
These Star Wars-themed guided reading activities, aimed at children aged 8-13 years old, tests children’s retrieval, word meaning, summary and deduction skills. There are two activities - one focused on the Star Wars films across the years and the second focused on the most recent installment in 2019 - The Rise of Skywalker.Questions and answers are provided, with an indication of how many marks are on offer at the end of each question. This is particularly helpful for children preparing for rea
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4th - 9th
Ben Franklin’s Autobiography, Informational Text, Franklin Aphorisms, 13 Virtues
Use this two-day lesson pack to get your teens excited about studying the words and ideas of Benjamin Franklin, one of the United States’ most compelling founding fathers.This 9-page download (PDF + Google Drive version of all student handouts):• Detailed, step-by-step lesson procedure suggestions• Brainstorming handout to help students create their own definition of a successful person• Four-page excerpt of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin • Critical-thinking question handout that require
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10th - 12th
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College Pennant Research Project
This College Pennant Research Project allows students to choose a college that is important to them, research important facts about the college, and then decorate a college pennant to market it to others. Perfect to hang up to around the school for college awareness week in January or simply to promote college awareness campus-wide! This resource contains: ✔️ Teacher/sub pacing guide (entire project takes 4-5 days total)✔️ Blank college pennant outline (works best if printed on cardstock)✔️ Gra
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: College Bundle College Week Activities Counseling
F. Scott Fitzgerald Author Study Worksheet, PDF & Google Drive, Biography, CCSS
Skip the typical F. Scott Fitzgerald introduction lecture and empower students to find their own interesting facts about this Jazz Age writer’s life as you launch a study of The Great Gatsby with this “Author Bio” print/post-and-teach activity.This single-page worksheet (includes both PDF & Google Drive versions) is a powerful research organizer that’ll get students digging deep into Fitzgerald’s background.Please note: This download does NOT include a specific article or links to defined ar
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9th - 12th
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