Subject: Informational

Skills: Nonfiction Text Features

Description: Use this printable to help your students to identify common features within a nonfiction text they are reading.

Skills: Participate in an engaging close reading lesson Ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of sentence frames Classify, analyze and interpret text by ...

Description: Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills, this informational text bundle of lesson plans (4 separate segments 45-60 minutes each) is perfect for your 3rd graders!  Using the text “Bounce! Roll! Slide! Predicting Patterns of Movement” by Jennifer Kaul your students will:

• Participate in an engaging close reading lesson
  • Ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of sentence frames
  • Classify, analyze and interpret text by creating headings in collaborative
  • Create and illustrate an object in motion with the support of a graphic organizer

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4, RI.3.6, RI.3.8

Skills: Participate in a collaborative and active close reading lesson by asking and answering questions text dependent questions with the support of sentence frames Use context ...

Description: Using informational text to teach reading and comprehension skills is engaging and fun!  In this 5th Grade Fourth Grade bundle of lesson (3 independent lessons)  based “Abracadabra! Changes in Matter” by Jennifer Kaul your students will:

• Participate in a collaborative and active close reading lesson by asking and answering questions text dependent questions with the support of sentence frames
• Use context clues to determine meaning of unknown words
• Classify information and create a new layout for an informational text with a focus on text features

CCSS: RI.5.1, RI.5.2, RI.5.3, RI.5.4, RI.5.6, RI.5.7, RI.5.8

Skills: Participate in  complex text lesson Ask and answer text-dependent questions using sentence frames  Identify the main idea and key details, Practice comparing, contrasting and classifying ...

Description: Perfect for English Language Learners, this fully scripted bundle of 3 separate ELA lesson plans based around an Informational Physical Science text, “Smart Phones, Tablets, and computers,” by Jennifer Kaul. Your students will:

• Participate in  complex text lesson
• Ask and answer text-dependent questions using sentence frames
•  Identify the main idea and key details,
• Practice comparing, contrasting and classifying information

CCSS: 1.RI.1, 1.RI.2, 1.RI.3, 1.RI.4, 1.W.2

Skills: Discover concepts about seasons and the sun (rotate and revolve) Using diagrams, drawing, labeling, chanting  to help understand the concept Participate in structured collaborative discussions.

Description: Perfect for English Language Learners, this fully scripted bundle of 3 separate ELA lesson plans is based on Earth Science Standards and an Informational Earth Science text, “The Seasons and the Sun,” by Jennifer Kaul.  Your students will:

• Discover concepts about seasons and the sun (rotate and revolve)
• Using diagrams, drawing, labeling, chanting  to help understand the concept
• Participate in structured collaborative discussions.

CCSS: 1-ESS1-2, 1.RI.1, 1.RI.2, 1.RI.4, 1.RI.5, 1.RI.7

Skills: Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice Ask and answer text dependent questions ...

Description: Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills, this informational text bundle of lesson plans (4 separate segments 45-60 minutes each) is perfect for your 4th graders!  Using a text based around a physical science standards your students will:

• Participate in a series of engaging close reading lessons with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through oral language practice
• Ask and answer text dependent questions in order to...
  • Identify key details and determining the meaning of unknown vocabulary using context clues
  • Practice comparing and contrasting
  • Practice inferring in order to create headings for the text and write a summary
  • Demonstrate understanding of the information with a Bingo review game

CCSS: RI.4.1, RI.4.2, RI.4.3, RI.4.4, RI.4.5, RI.4.6, & RI.4.8