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Middle school 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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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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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
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
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
Types:
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
Types:
Also included in: CAUSE-EFFECT - INFORMATION TEXT - BUNDLE
Creative Ways to Show Comprehension- Activities from A to Z
Twenty-six engaging ways to demonstrate comprehension. Activities for struggling as well as gifted learners from grades 3 to 8. Great for centers and choice boards!
Grades:
3rd - 8th
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INFORMATION TEXT TYPES LESSON AND RESOURCES
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on information text types.After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:Acquire understanding of the features and structures of information text types.List the information text elements.Demonstrate knowledge of information texts in writing.This Resource Includes:Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and OutcomesVocabulary Overview - Information TextFlipped Lesson Part - Video - Text StructuresEngaging and Creative L
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: INFORMATION TEXT: LESSON AND RESOURCES - BUNDLE
Creative Ways to Show Comprehension-- Activities from A to Z!
Fun ways to incorporate art, music, math, engineering, and technology into fictional and non-fictional texts!
Great for centers, learning stations, and choice boards!!
Options for struggling as well as gifted learners!!!
Grades:
3rd - 7th
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PROBLEM AND SOLUTION INFORMATION TEXT LESSON AND RESOURCES
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on problem and solution information text.After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:Acquire understanding of the features of problem and solution information text.List the problem and solution text elements.Demonstrate knowledge of problem and solution information text in writing.This Resource Includes:Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and OutcomesVocabulary Overview - Problem, Solution, Information TextFlipp
Grades:
6th - 8th
Also included in: INFORMATION TEXT: LESSON AND RESOURCES - BUNDLE
WRITING AN INFORMATION TEXT - WORKSHEETS
These Worksheets are perfect for teaching how to write an information text. 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 structure and features of information text types.Identify the techniques used by the author in structuring information text types.Identify the purpose of the information text types.Pla
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
Also included in: WRITING AN INFORMATION TEXT - BUNDLE
Informational Writing Structure Task Cards Set 2
These task cards provide a definition, clues for determining textual structure, and comprehension tips for the following informational writing text structures: chronological, spatial, and problem/solution.
Grades:
6th - 9th
COMPARE-CONTRAST - INFORMATION TEXT - WORKSHEETS
These Worksheets with a Answer Key are perfect for teaching how to write an Information Text - Compare-Contrast. 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:Determine the organisational methods used when comparing and contrasting.Identify the clue or signal words used when comparing and contrasting.Identify the simi
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
Also included in: COMPARE-CONTRAST - INFORMATION TEXT - BUNDLE
SEQUENCE - INFORMATION TEXT - WORKSHEETS
These worksheets are perfect for teaching how to write an Information Text - Sequence. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. Your students will love these exercises that are carefully planned for student engagement.After attempting these activities, your students will be able to:Group up sequentially the given information: process, order, chronology, timeline and sequence.Identify the clue or signal words used in information texts that arrange the ideas in particular order.Det
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
Also included in: SEQUENCE - INFORMATION TEXT - BUNDLE
DESCRIPTION - INFORMATION TEXT - WORKSHEETS
These Worksheets with Answers are perfect for teaching how to write an Information Text - Description. These no prep activities would be great for ELA lessons. 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 communicative purpose of texts that describe nouns and visuals.Classify the vocabulary type used in texts that describe pie charts, line graphs, bar graphs or diagrams.Reco
Grades:
6th - 8th
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Also included in: DESCRIPTION - INFORMATION TEXT - BUNDLE
DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION TEXT LESSON AND RESOURCES
A lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on descriptive information text.After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:Acquire understanding of the features of descriptive information text.List the descriptive text elements.Demonstrate knowledge of descriptive information text in writing.This Resource Includes:Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and OutcomesVocabulary Overview - Description, Information TextFlipped Lesson Part - Video - Descriptive Writi
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
Also included in: INFORMATION TEXT: LESSON AND RESOURCES - BUNDLE
NON-CHRONOLOGICAL REPORT WRITING : LESSON PLAN AND RESOURCES
A ready to use lesson plan that presents teaching and learning resources on non-chronological report writing.After completing this lesson, the students will be able to:Comment on a writer’s use of language, demonstrating awareness of its impact on the reader.Write non-chronological reports linked to work in other subjects.Use paragraphs, sequencing and linking them appropriately to support overall development.This download includes:Vocabulary Overview - Non-chronological ReportReal Life Applicat
Grades:
6th - 8th
Types:
Also included in: WRITING BUNDLE LESSON PLANS AND RESOURCES
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