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Reading - Informational Text Skills

Ramp up informational text reading skills with direct instruction, practice, and assessment. Kids learn about paragraph structure, main idea and supporting details, text structure, and finding word meaning. You can pick and choose - or purchase complete units for 20% off.

Informational Text Structures Anchor Charts & Graphic Organizers for Any Text

By Brenda Kovich

These anchor charts and graphic organizers will help your third, fourth, or fifth grade students understand structures of nonfiction, analyze informative texts, and/or organize informational writing. Two quick reference guides and five one-page

Subjects:

Writing-Expository, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

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Printables, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RI.4.5, RI.5.5

$2.00

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Nonfiction Text Structures Practice or Centers - Worksheets & Sorting Activity

By Brenda Kovich

Practice identifying nonfiction text structures with 45 paragraphs. This pack helps kids discriminate between five informational formats. It includes differentiated worksheets and a sorting activity. They're great for centers, small group, or the

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Tools for Common Core, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.5, RI.5.5

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Summarizing Nonfiction Texts Worksheets – Reading Passages & Graphic Organizers

By Brenda Kovich

Engage your students with high-interest informational texts! Five multi-paragraph reading passages provide practice in summarizing. Corresponding worksheets include simple graphic organizers and room to write. Open the preview to take a closer

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Printables

CCSS:

RI.3.2, RI.4.2

$5.00

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How to Write a Nonfiction Summary with Main Idea & Supporting Details Lesson

By Brenda Kovich

Looking for a fun way to teach kids how to write a nonfiction summary with main idea and key supporting details? Model the process with an engaging multi-paragraph text. It’s easy with a hamburger analogy!Open the preview to see how you’ll use the

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

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PowerPoint Presentations, Printables, Google Apps

CCSS:

RI.3.2, RI.4.2

$5.00

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Nonfiction Paragraph Main Idea Worksheets - Reading Passages for 3rd & 4th Grade

By Brenda Kovich

Kids find the main idea in one-paragraph nonfiction reading passages. Third and fourth grade students learn to locate the topic sentence and supporting details. Then the teacher scaffolds understanding with a longer essay. A hamburger analogy

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, Homeschool

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.3.2, RI.4.2

$3.50

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Informational Text Structures Activity – Nonfiction Sorting Cards with Examples

By Brenda Kovich

Practice informational text structures with 25 examples. In pairs or groups, students analyze paragraphs on sorting cards and classify their formats. Nonfiction texts feature five castles around the world. Kids love this activity!Open the preview to

Subjects:

English Language Arts, ELA Test Prep, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.5, RI.5.5

$3.50

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Space Reading Passages with Tables - Nonfiction Texts on Technology & Discovery

By Brenda Kovich

Kids analyze nonfiction texts and tables to explain relationships between space technology and discoveries. In this real-world investigation, they explore scientific data and make connections between inventions, size, distance, and discovery. Open

Subjects:

Science, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

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Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

RI.4.3, RI.4.7, RI.5.3, RI.5.7

$5.00

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Interdisciplinary Earth Day Projects – Science Reading Activities 4th, 5th Grade

By Brenda Kovich

Try two interdisciplinary projects for Earth Day! In the first science activity, fourth or fifth grade students compare fuel types and design their own eco-friendly vehicles. In the second, they read about and evaluate sources of electricity. As a

Subjects:

Science, Earth Day, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

RI.4.9, RI.5.9, W.4.1, W.4.7, W.5.1, W.5.7

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Butterfly Writing Project - Using Informational Text Structures

By Brenda Kovich

Kids love learning about butterflies - - - and you’ll love the way they write using five different informational text structures. The project fortifies your students’ understanding of purpose, organization, and key words.Open the preview to take a

Subjects:

Biology, Writing, Informational Text

Grades:

3^rd, 4^th, 5^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Printables, Lesson

CCSS:

W.3.2, W.4.2, W.5.2

$4.00

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Time flies when you're having fun! I taught fourth grade for more than 35 years and loved it. Today, my mission is to create enjoyable, engaging materials your classroom.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I believe in student-centered learning that's seriously fun. In my store, you'll find engaging genre studies and hands-on science, as well as scaffolded ELA and math units that move kids to mastery.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

I'm proud to be a National Board Certified Teacher (Middle Childhood Generalist) and have received three special awards: Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellow, Crystal Apple Award Winner, and Lake Central Teacher of the Year.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

I received a B.A. in Elementary Education, an M.S. in Elementary Education, a Gifted and Talented Endorsement - all from Purdue University.

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary, Specialty, Math, Algebra, Basic Operations, Fractions, Geometry, Graphing, Measurement, Numbers, Science, Anatomy, Astronomy, Basic Principles, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Environment, Physics, Social Studies, Elections - Voting, U.S. History, World History, Arts & Music, Music, Computer Science, Drama, ESL-EFL-ELL, ELA Test Prep, Math Test Prep, Geography, Other (ELA), Gifted and Talented, Critical Thinking, For All Subjects, Literature, Classroom Management, Statistics, Word Problems, General Science, Physical Science, Problem Solving, Criminal Justice - Law, Short Stories, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Thanksgiving, Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Halloween, Winter, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, Decimals, Black History Month, St. Patrick's Day, Spring, Place Value, Tools for Common Core, Earth Day, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Test Preparation, End of Year, Engineering, Close Reading, Women's History Month, Classroom Community