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High school informational text worksheet pdfs

Preview of Nonfiction Text Features Scavenger Hunt Summarizing Informational Text Graphic

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
Preview of Recipe Reading Comprehension Worksheets Set 1 Life Skills and Functional Reading

Recipe Reading Comprehension Worksheets Set 1 Life Skills and Functional Reading

Here is a set of worksheets to practice reading comprehension of recipes. Practice life skills in your special education classroom while working on reading comprehension. Included in this product are 10 recipes plus 2 worksheets for each recipe. Both recipes and worksheets include 2 levels: written and with pictures. The texts are the same for each level, but one level includes pictures in order to aide with comprehension. It's a great way to use environmental print to practice reading com
Preview of Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Worksheets Activities Grades 8-9

Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Worksheets Activities Grades 8-9

Created by
Read Relevant
These 10 pages of reading comprehension passages and questions worksheets contain multiple choice questions for students to practice a range of skills. Passages are high-interest and written on an 8th-9th grade level. This resource is perfect for test-prep, special education and progress monitoring, differentiating, and scaffolding for struggling readers. This Download Contains: 10 passages with multiple choice questions: easy one-page printables answer keyself checking digital version on Easel
Preview of Current Event Article Close Reading, Informational Text, PDF & Google Drive CCSS

Current Event Article Close Reading, Informational Text, PDF & Google Drive CCSS

Created by
Laura Randazzo
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
Preview of Compare and Contrast the Author's Point of View BigFoot

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
Preview of Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe short story + non-fiction, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS

Black Cat, Edgar Allan Poe short story + non-fiction, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS

Created by
Laura Randazzo
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
Preview of Persuasive Writing: Lesson Plan Pack

Persuasive Writing: Lesson Plan Pack

Created by
Stacey Lloyd
Writing doesn't come easily to many students; so to effectively teach persuasive writing we need to GUIDE students through the process. In this comprehensive persuasive writing pack you will get step-by-step lesson plans, engaging worksheets, helpful handouts and more.  ** NOTE: You can now buy this as part of my BUNDLED WRITING PACK and save 20%**OVERVIEW:The main goal for this unit is for students to learn the main techniques of persuasive language (including ethos, pathos, and logos), and
Preview of Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe short story non-fiction multimedia PDF & Google

Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe short story non-fiction multimedia PDF & Google

Created by
Laura Randazzo
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
Preview of Calculating Speed, Time, Distance, and Graphing Motion - Distance Time Graphs

Calculating Speed, Time, Distance, and Graphing Motion - Distance Time Graphs

This activity is centered around the concept of motion. This activity defines motion and gives instruction and examples on how it cat be calculated and graphed. This activity includes informational text on calculating and graphing motion as well as a variety of problems to check for understanding. There are problems that involve solving for speed, distance traveled, and time in motion. Distance vs. Time and Speed vs. Time graphs are discussed. Twelve distance vs. time graphs and twelve spe
Preview of Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice

Show Evidence From the Text: Nonfiction Reading Practice

Created by
Tracee Orman
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
Preview of RACES Strategy Writing Passages and Prompts for Text Evidence

RACES Strategy Writing Passages and Prompts for Text Evidence

Created by
Read Relevant
This product contains 5 ready-to-use passages and short response questions to guide students through the use of the RACES strategy. RACES is a writing strategy to help students answer passage-based, short response questions in a formal style, with using clear reasons and text evidence, and to provide concluding statements. → Need a 100% Digital Google Slides compatible version? CLICK HERE!Why use the RACES strategy? This mnemonic device is especially helpful for struggling writers and students w
Preview of College Pennant Research Project

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
Preview of The Feather Pillow Horacio Quiroga, Lit. Analysis + Non-Fiction PDF & Google App

The Feather Pillow Horacio Quiroga, Lit. Analysis + Non-Fiction PDF & Google App

Created by
Laura Randazzo
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
Preview of Unbroken, Farewell to Manzanar, Compare & Contrast Non-Fiction, PDF & Google App

Unbroken, Farewell to Manzanar, Compare & Contrast Non-Fiction, PDF & Google App

Created by
Laura Randazzo
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
Preview of Edgar Allan Poe Author Study Worksheet, PDF & Google Drive, Poe Biography CCSS

Edgar Allan Poe Author Study Worksheet, PDF & Google Drive, Poe Biography CCSS

Created by
Laura Randazzo
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
Preview of Expository, Non-Fiction Lesson on Modern Issues: Fear Factors, Grades 8-12, CCSS

Expository, Non-Fiction Lesson on Modern Issues: Fear Factors, Grades 8-12, CCSS

Created by
Laura Randazzo
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
Preview of Text Structure Graphic Organizers- with paired mentor texts!

Text Structure Graphic Organizers- with paired mentor texts!

Created by
Plans by Mrs B
Text Structure Graphic Organizers with Paired Mentor TextsWe all hope that students come into our middle and high school ELA classrooms with the ability to identify text structure. However, this is not always the reality! Even if students do come into class with some knowledge of text structure, they lack the ability to make connections between elementary level cause and effect understanding and the high expectations demanded by Common Core writing. This print and go resource bridges the gap so
Preview of Jason Reynolds Author Study Worksheet, Author Bio, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS

Jason Reynolds Author Study Worksheet, Author Bio, PDF & Google Drive, CCSS

Created by
Laura Randazzo
Skip the typical Jason Reynolds introduction lecture as you launch a study of Ghost, All American Boys, Long Way Down, or any of Reynolds’ other works. Instead, empower students to find their own interesting facts about this author’s life with this “Author Bio” print/post-and-teach activity.This single-page worksheet (both printable PDF & Google Drive versions included) is a powerful research organizer that’ll get students digging deep into Jason Reynolds’ background.Please note: This downlo
Preview of Arthur Miller Author Study Worksheet, PDF & Google Drive, The Crucible CCSS

Arthur Miller Author Study Worksheet, PDF & Google Drive, The Crucible CCSS

Created by
Laura Randazzo
Skip the typical Arthur Miller introduction lecture as you launch a study of The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, or any of Miller’s other works and empower students to find their own interesting facts about this author’s life with this “Author Bio” print/post-and-teach activity.This single-page worksheet (includes both a PDF & Google Drive version) is a powerful research organizer that’ll get students digging deep into Miller’s background.Please note: This download does NOT include a specific
Preview of Ray Bradbury Author Study Worksheet, PDF & Google Drive, Bradbury biography CCSS

Ray Bradbury Author Study Worksheet, PDF & Google Drive, Bradbury biography CCSS

Created by
Laura Randazzo
Skip the typical Ray Bradbury introduction lecture and empower students to find their own interesting facts about the Fahrenheit 451 author’s life 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 Bradbury’s background.Please note: This download does NOT include a specific article or links to defined articles. It is an organizer tool for students t
Preview of Comprehensions for Star Wars Day, "May the 4th be with you"

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
Preview of Ben Franklin’s Autobiography, Informational Text, Franklin Aphorisms, 13 Virtues

Ben Franklin’s Autobiography, Informational Text, Franklin Aphorisms, 13 Virtues

Created by
Laura Randazzo
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
Preview of INFORMATIONAL TEXT LESSON {Analyzing A Magazine Article: Social Media for Teens}

INFORMATIONAL TEXT LESSON {Analyzing A Magazine Article: Social Media for Teens}

Created by
Stacey Lloyd
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
Preview of F. Scott Fitzgerald Author Study Worksheet, PDF & Google Drive, Biography, CCSS

F. Scott Fitzgerald Author Study Worksheet, PDF & Google Drive, Biography, CCSS

Created by
Laura Randazzo
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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