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Students will read a fascinating, informational text about fungus, then follow steps to write a conclusion.

Writing Conclusions for Informational Text

Use a student-friendly glossary and sentence frames to learn about wild weather!  Scaffolds will help your students answer text-dependent questions.  This lesson can be paired with the main Informational Text: Close Reading lesson.

Informational Text: Close Reading

Use this open-ended writing activity to assess your students’ abilities to write informational texts and include appropriate text features. Students are asked to write about a topic of their choice using key details and facts, including at least one text

Informational Writing with Text Features

Students will practice writing hook questions and then write their own introduction to an informational text about animals that echo.

Writing an Introduction for Informational Text

Help students enrich their informational writing by learning to use text features. 

Using Text Features

Want students to use text features in their writing? Begin by having them examine the text features that they see in informational books. 

Analyzing Text Features

Students learn how to identify and locate text features with this informational writing worksheet.

Text Features Scavenger Hunt

Let's learn about natural disasters. After reading through some informational texts, students will use their close reading skills to answer questions about different types of disasters.

Writing reports and other kinds of informational pieces is a skill unto itself. It requires an understanding of organizing and sequencing thoughts, tying them together in a way that makes sense to the reader and sometimes a bit of research. It is recommended that students participate in writing their own informational essay on a topic of their choice. This will allow them to apply all that they are learning through the exercises in this unit.

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When paired with two types of nonfiction texts, this classic graphic organizer will help students visualize the similarities and differences between the text features of printed text and electronic text.

Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast Text Features of Nonfiction Printed Text and Nonfiction Electronic Text

In this lesson, students will learn how to write a conclusion for informational text using pre-written texts for practice.


Informational Writing: Conclusions

Informational Text Quiz 2

This worksheet gives your students practice reading and analyzing informational text to explain the author’s claim and supporting reasons.

The Reality of Zoos: Nonfiction Text

This resource gives your students practice creating an outline of an informational paragraph.

Informational Outlines 2

Use this exercise to give your students practice gaining information from both the text and the text features. Help your learners build a foundation of comprehension when reading nonfiction text.

Working Together: Text and Text Features

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

Graphic Organizer: Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts

This informational text about a topic relevant to students can be used to help explain author’s claims and the reasons used to support them.

Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

This lesson will help students identify the author's point of view and purpose for writing an informational text.

Examining Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text

Get your magnifying glasses&mdash;it&rsquo;s time to play text detective. In this lesson, students will learn the importance of reading comprehension and making inferences while learning to correctly label the 5 Ws within a text.

Informational Text: Citing Evidence Like a Detective

Get your students excited about expository text through this fun introduction to text features! Students will create their own glossary of nonfiction text features.

Find the Text Feature

Describe the facts! This lesson teaches your ELs to identify adjectives and their important role as key details in informational texts. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the lesson Summarizing Nonfiction Texts.

Adjectives in Informational Texts

Direct instruction about text features will help ELs better comprehend nonfiction texts. In this lesson, students will practice identifying text features. This lesson can be used alone or with the What's in a Text Feature? lesson plan.

Searching for Text Features

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.

Glossary: Adjectives in Informational Texts

This lesson helps your ELs identify nonfiction text features and explain how they enhance comprehension of the text. Use it as a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson for the Searching for Text Features lesson plan.

Text Features and Their Purposes

Let's practice reading nonfiction texts! In this lesson, teach your ELs about identifying and describing text features. This lesson can be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Formatting Text Features.

Understand Text Features

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Informational Indentations

In this lesson, students will read text features and discuss how each text feature relates to the main idea of a nonfiction text. Use a stand alone activity or a support for the Examining the Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text lesson.

Learning About Text Features

Use this lesson to help your ELs evaluate the purpose of text features and justify their answers. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the lesson Comparing Nonfiction Text Features.

Text Features Evaluation

Use this worksheet to practice identifying and describing text features.

Text Feature Descriptions

Help your tween regain command of formal writing with this worksheet that translates text grammar back into complete sentences.

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