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Informational text task cards for Microsoft Word
Main Idea and Supporting Details
This is a collection of 20 short reading passages written on a 2nd to 3rd grade level. Along with the passages are 20 worksheets. Each worksheet provides three choices of the main idea of the reading passage it goes with. However the student is required to go back to the text and find three details that will support their choice of the main idea.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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2RI.6 Determining Author's Purpose and Meaning
5 Passages with a Reader's Response follow up per passage. They are listed as Task Cards so you can use in a literacy center station. However, you may want to use these at your guided table or as mini lesson each day for a week with whole group practice. There are 2-3 multiple choice questions per passage and one writing response for each passage. Multiple choice items align to question stems on state summative assessments.
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
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CCSS:
Reading Informational Text, Grade 3, Common Core Activity Menu/Literacy Centers
Here is a generic activity menu with nine activties aligned to your Common Core ELA RI. Standards. This is a sustainable tool that can be used over and over again as you change the titles of your Informational and Non-fiction texts with students. However, although the activities are generic the standards are strictly aligned and Common Core specific.
Suggested Logistics:
1) Introduce activities whole class over the course of 3-4 weeks. Provide guided practice, model the expected quality of
Grades:
3rd
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Test Prep Task Card Egg Hunt- ELA
This product includes 30 ELA task cards, student answer sheet, answer key and directions. The task cards are meant to be printed and hidden in eggs around your classroom as an exciting way to review for end of the year standardized tests. The task cards include topics such as text structure, vocabulary, drawing conclusions, and many more.
Grades:
3rd - 4th
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Text Features Detectives BOOM Cards - Distance Learning
PREVIEW HERE!Students will become detectives and identify text features throughout this fun and engaging activity. There are 50 cards included in this product. Books have been disappearing from the local library and the detective kids must find all of the missing books. They will identify text features by picture and definitions, identify what would be the best text feature to match the text, and answer questions using the text features. Every time a student finds the right answer, they will
Grades:
3rd - 4th
Kindergarten - Common Core RI.K.7 - Illustrations Show and Tell
This is a set of 24 task cards that give students practice with identifying how illustrations relate with the text. Each card shows a picture. Students look at each picture, and then they are given a multiple choice question that asks them to identify what person, place, thing, or idea the illustration depicts. These task cards can be used with a small group of students, can be sent home for practice, or can be projected up on a screen to do as a whole group activity. Print on card stock and l
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Grades:
K - 1st
Author's Purpose Card Sort Activity
Why do author's write in different ways? Why use titles or bullets? Is the author's purpose different when writing historical fiction than when writing a recipe? Why? Why? Why?
Here is a fun, hands-on activity where students sort topic cards according to the author's purpose - persuade, inform, entertain/express. Kids love it!
Card topics include...
* literary genres
* informational text features
* common graphics and images
* poetic formats
Great conversations bloom as your st
Grades:
2nd - 8th
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Reading Informational Text, Grade 2, Common Core Activity Menu/Literacy Centers
Here is a generic, sustainable activity menu with nine activities strictly aligned to your Informational Text Standards for Common Core. The menu can be used over and over again to ensure students are making progress towards mastery of each RI Standard.
Each activity has a student recording sheet for formative assessments.
Suggested Logistics:
1) Present activities whole class over the course of 3-4 weeks, a few activities per week. Allow for guided practice, presenting exemplars of qualit
Grades:
2nd
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SUPER FUN MIDDLE SCHOOL INFORMATION REVISION STATIONS!
Here is another set of stations you can set up around your classroom to help students independently reflect on and improve their information writing.
These eight stations cover
* When to break paragraphs
* Maintaining formal language by not using first or second person pronouns
* Combining sentences for power, variety, and voice
* Ensuring sentences are complete and verb tenses are consistent
* Using figurative language
* Elaborating with details
* Ordering information
* Wisely using synonyms
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Language Arts Escape Room
Review poetry, figurative language, informational reading, constructed response writing, and more with this fun and engaging escape room! Students will practice important language arts skills while they collaborate with their groups and problem-solve.
Grades:
5th - 8th
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CKLA Grade 2 Domain 2: Indus River Valley Civilization Journal
This is an Extension Writing project . It includes specific directions for teacher or student, journal templates, student checklist, and a rubric. This can be used as a writing task/assessment in class or a home project.
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Grades:
2nd - 6th
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Informational Writing Structure Task Cards Set 1
These task cards provide a definition, clues for determining textual structure, and comprehension tips for the following informational writing text structures: main idea/supporting details, compare and contrast, and cause and effect.
Grades:
6th - 10th
Common Core Question Stem cards and bookmark
It is so important for students to form their own questions while reading. What kind of questions are students asking? I took the common core question stems and created cards and a bookmark. My goal is to have these cards on a ring and teach students how to use them when forming their own questions. As I teach a strand, I will distribute a card and have students practice asking and forming questions for that particular strand. As we include more strands, we will also include more cards. Th
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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Reading Informational Text, Grade 5, Common Core Activity Menu/Literacy Centers
This is a generic activity menu that is sustainable and can be used over and over again as you change the titles of your nonfiction or informational texts. Yet, it is specifically aligned to the Informational Text Standards 1-9 for the Common Core. The menu has nine activities strictly aligned using the language and suggested questions presented in the NCDPI Unpacking Documents.
Each activity also has a student response sheet for formative assessments toward mastery of that standard.
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Grades:
5th
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Common Core Reviewed for 3rd-5th grade
This is a great tool to use with the kids when going over the different kinds of questions. The more complex questions are in bold. There are also clue words for students to look for that help them know how they need to answer the questions. Ex: If they are completing a chronological order question, they look for transitional words and phrases. Then they know they have to go back to the story to find what happened before/after/first/last, etc. These have been updated to go with the new common co
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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COMPARE AND CONTRAST INFORMATION TEXT LESSON AND RESOURCES
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on compare and contrast information text.After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:Acquire understanding of the features of compare and contrast information text.List the compare and contrast text elements.Demonstrate knowledge of compare and contrast information text in writing.This Resource Includes:Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and OutcomesVocabulary Overview - Compare, Contrast, Information TextFlipp
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: INFORMATION TEXT: LESSON AND RESOURCES - BUNDLE
Fact and Opinion Non-fiction Task Cards (African American History)
18 total Task Cards.
Non-fiction information on all 18 cards.
All cards contain information related to African American leaders.
Great for Black History Month activity.
Helps students differentiate between fact and opinion in non-fiction text.
Great for workshop activity.
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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The "Now and Then" Program, Responding to Artifacts-Question Stems
This add-on document goes with the total Now and Then, Past: Prologue to the Future learning unit offered in bulk or individual units. This is a one page document with several critical thinking questions with a focus on initiating inquiry, analyzing data, testing hypothesizes and overall generalization of conclusion responses.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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READING INFORMATION TEXT: WORKSHEETS WITH ANSWERS - 33 EXERCISES
A unit set of worksheets with answers on reading information text of 6 sessions on teaching and learning based on New Bloom's Taxonomy. After completing this unit students will be able to:SESSION 1: REMEMBERING - Vocabulary Overview - Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text. SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING - Language and Vocabulary - Determine a central idea of a text and analyse its development over the course of the text. SESSION 3: APPLYING - Visual and Textual Clues -
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: READING INFORMATION TEXT: BLOOM'S TAXONOMY BASED RESOURCES - BUNDLE
Think Tank:All About Bats
This is a think tank create around Deanna Jumps TPT of Bats Math and Literacy Fun. This does not include any material from Deanna Jump. You will need to purchase it separately. This product includes the think tank cover sheet. Students will read Deanna Jumps book All About Bats. Use the activity sheets she has within the purchase of the Bats. Label the bats and make a lists of what bats have, are and can do. Create a bat and glue it upside down in the tree. Play math and literacy games and compa
Grades:
K - 2nd
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Slavery Overview - 7 STATIONS with videos, song, poem, law, pictures, and texts
These stations are perfect for pre-reading for a text like Frederick Douglass or Harriet Jacobs. They could also be used as an activity to go in a unit on slavery. There is a 3-page worksheet that students record their answers for the stations on. It's a Word document, so if you need to change anything to meet your goals, you can. All you need to do for this is print or post online!There is a 1 page direction sheet for each station. You could pass folders around or post them around the room. Thr
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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PROBLEM-SOLUTION - INFORMATION TEXT - WORKSHEETS
These Worksheets are perfect for teaching how to write an Information Text - Problem-Solution. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement.After attempting these activities, your students will be able to:Identify the problems and solutions in the given texts, situations and visuals.Identify the clue or signal words used in information texts that identify problem and suggest solut
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: PROBLEM-SOLUTION - INFORMATION TEXT - BUNDLE
CAUSE-EFFECT - INFORMATION TEXT - WORKSHEETS
These Worksheets are perfect for teaching how to write an Information Text - Cause-Effect. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement.After attempting these activities, your students will be able to:Identify the clue or signal words used in writing cause and effect text.Determine the organisational methods used in structuring cause and effect text.Identify the causes and effects
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: CAUSE-EFFECT - INFORMATION TEXT - BUNDLE
NonFiction Reading Stations
These are great station activities tied to the TEKS for students to work on during Reader's Workshop. They read same text daily and complete a station so by the end of the week they will have completed all stations. These stations give students an opportunity to read a text for many purposes and delve deeper as well as work on fluency.
Grades:
3rd - 5th
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