Lessons tagged with "Informational+text"
Describe Key Ideas and Details
- Grade:
- 1
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Reading Informational Text lesson has students identify the key idea in the text and describe the details that support it. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.
Answer Who, When, & Where Questions (Informational)
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational lesson covers the answering of who, when, and where questions about the informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, answer questions about key details, and verify the answer by referring back to the text.
Identify the Main Topic of a Multi-Paragraph Text
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Common Core reading informational text lesson focuses on determining the main topic in a text. In this lesson, students will determine the main topic of a text and then the key details that support that main topic. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
Read and Comprehend Informational Text by Answering Questions about Topic
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson focuses on reading comprehension. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (Also aligns with 3.RI.1.)
Compare and Contrast Two Texts on the Same Topic
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson covers how to compare two texts on the same topic. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to compare texts by determining whether the information is in one text, the other, or both.
Follow Multiple-Step Written Instructions
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on following multiple-step written instructions. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use directions containing more than one step to answer questions about how to make or do something. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Plan and Write Informative Text
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing lesson helps students practice writing informative text. In this lesson, students will read given research notes on a topic, then develop a topic sentence, supporting detail sentences, and a concluding sentence using a graphic organizer. (Also aligns with standard 3.W.7.)
Answer Questions Referring to the Text
- Grade:
- 3
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Common Core reading informational text lesson focuses on reading comprehension. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. In this lesson, students will answer questions to demonstrate an understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
Identify the Compare and Contrast Pattern in Informational Text
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on identifying the compare-and-contrast pattern in the informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the text, looking for compare and contrast clue words to identify two things being compared and whether or not the text is a compare-and-contrast text pattern. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Answer Who, When, and Where Questions
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson is designed as a part of our Link to Literacy English Language Development program. This description will be updated soon.
Analyze Informational Text
- Grade:
- 4
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
In this Reading Informational Text lesson, students are asked to interpret information from a passage and its related images, diagrams, and maps. Students must identify both the information and where it comes from. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.
Plan and Write Informational Text
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing unit covers how to write informational text. It includes planning and writing; revising by adding transitions; adding quotations; and rearranging, adding, or deleting sentences.
Analyze Compare-and-Contrast Text Organization
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on analyzing text that uses the compare-and-contrast organizational pattern. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use a graphic organizer to sort details from a passage to determine if they are comparing or contrasting information from the passage. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Analyze Compare-and-Contrast Text Organization
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational lesson focuses on analyzing text that uses the compare-and-contrast organizational pattern. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students use a graphic organizer to sort details from a passage to determine if they are comparing or contrasting information from the passage. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Interpret Multi-Step Instructions for Preparing Applications
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on interpreting multiple-step instructions for preparing applications. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read different applications and answer questions using information from the applications. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Trace & Evaluate an Author's Argument
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson covers how to trace and evaluate an author’s argument in informational text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students identify the author’s claims and determine if each claim is supported by relevant evidence. A final judgment is made on whether the argument has sound reasoning.
Determine the Central Idea of a Text
- Grade:
- 7, 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson covers determining a central idea in the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice identifying central ideas in expository text, and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas.
Identify the Author's Point of View
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on identifying an authors point of view. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the passage to determine the author's point of view. Then, they go back to the text to identify supporting details that help develop the author's point of view. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Analyze How an Author Acknowledges Conflicting Evidence or Viewpoints
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson covers how an author deals with conflicting viewpoints in a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will identify the author's point of view and analyze how he or she acknowledges or responds to conflicting viewpoints.
Determine and Analyze an Author's Point of View
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on identifying an authors point of view. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the passage to determine the author's point of view. Then, they go back to the text to identify supporting details that help develop the author's point of view. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Determine the Central Idea of a Text
- Grade:
- 7, 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson covers determining a central idea in the text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will practice identifying central ideas in expository text, and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas.
Write Informative Text
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing lesson covers how to write informative text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students write at least one complete sentence for each section of the planning chart completed in the Plan Informative Text lesson. Then, they use an editing checklist to identify and correct any errors. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of topics for review and extended thinking.
Plan Informative Text
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing lesson covers how to plan informative text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the research and identify related information that is needed to complete a graphic organizer. Then they complete the graphic organizer which asks for a topic, three facts and details, and a conclusion. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of facts and details related to topics for review and organizing.
Evaluate the Logic of Text
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on evaluating the logic of text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the text and identify the sentence that states the author's argument. Then, they identify other sentences that provide consistent support for the argument. If all examples support the argument, then they can determine that the argument has logic. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review modeled on current adaptive testing methods.
Cite Textual Evidence to Support Inferences
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading informational text lesson covers how to cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports what the text says explicitly as well as inferences are drawn from the text. The less This skill and concept should expand into larger works of informational text as the year progresses. The term conclusion is used in some assessments to evaluate inference (Smarter Balanced). Students will need to know that conclusion and inference are sometimes used interchangeably.
Compare & Contrast Warranties
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This reading comprehension lesson focuses on comparing and contrasting warranties. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students review a series of questions about a warranty and then scan the warranty to identify the answers and write them in a graphic organizer. Finally, they compare and contrast how two warranties are the same or different. In addition to the lesson, there are five pages of Independent Practice and review along with warranty glossary terms. The questions are modeled on current adaptive testing methods.
Determine the Central Idea and Analyze Its Development
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Analyze how an Author's Ideas are Developed and Refined
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Determine Two or More Central Ideas in Text and Analyze Their Development
- Grade:
- High School, High School 11-12
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Analyze How an Author Uses Rhetoric to Advance a Point of View
- Grade:
- High School, High School 11-12
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Assess the Usefulness of Sources (Criteria of Credibility)
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Determine the Figurative Meaning in Speeches
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Analyze the Impact of Word Choices on Meaning and Tone
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Determine Two or More Central Ideas in Text and Analyze Their Development
- Grade:
- High School, High School 11-12
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Analyze How an Author Uses Rhetoric to Advance a Point of View
- Grade:
- High School, High School 11-12
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Assess the Usefulness of Sources (Criteria of Credibility)
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Determine the Central Idea and Analyze Its Development
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Determine the Figurative Meaning in Speeches
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Analyze how an Author's Ideas are Developed and Refined
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Analyze the Impact of Word Choices on Meaning and Tone
- Grade:
- High School, High School 9-10
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Compare Two Texts
- Grade:
- K
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This integration of knowledge and ideas reading lesson practices answering specific questions about a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for Common Core assessments. This lesson contains who, when, and where questions. In Skill Development/Guided Practice, students are asked to tell which sentence they found the answer in. This prepares students to cite textual evidence.
Determine the Main Purpose of a Text
- Grade:
- Subject:
- English Language Development
This lesson is a part of the Link to Literacy program.
Recognize Types of Texts (Stories & Informational Text)
- Grade:
- Subject:
- English Language Development
Analyze Features of Informational Text
- Grade:
- Subject:
- English Language Development
This English Language Development lesson is a part of our Link to Literacy program.