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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

Writing Conclusions for Informational Text

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

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Writing an Introduction for Informational Text

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.

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Should I Recycle This?: Nonfiction Text

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

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Informational Indentations

Text formatting can add a lot of richness to how information is explained. In this lesson students will explore the organization of nonfiction texts and go on a scavenger hunt for different kinds of text formatting features. 

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Formatting Nonfiction Text

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand how to write effective nonfiction text summaries. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Create a Non-fiction Text Summary lesson plan.

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Summarize a Nonfiction Text

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

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Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

Ahoy there! Ready to sail with your students on a treasure map summary? What's that matey? Your students need practice with summaries? Then take a journey and summarize to find the hidden treasure.

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Hidden Treasure: Summarizing Informational Text

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

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Informational Outlines 2

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

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Strong and Supportive Details in Informational Texts

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

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Informational Outlines 1

Use this resource to assess your students’ informational writing skills.

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Informational Writing Learning Check

In this activity, kids provide evidence by paraphrasing and selecting direct quotes from an informational text.

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Sea Turtle Citations: Paraphrasing & Direct Quotes

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. 

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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

Encourage students to develop an informational paragraph using a personal anecdote!

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Personal Stories in Informational Writing

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

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Informational Writing: Strong Support

Use this resource to assess your students’ writing skills in responding to an informational writing prompt.

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Informational Writing Check-Up

Use this mid-year assessment to catch a glimpse of your young writers’ style and voice, while simultaneously assessing their skills within the informational writing genre.

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Informational Writing Check-In

Hone your students' close reading skills by using this interesting and fun lesson that teaches your class survival skills in an informational text.

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Super Survival Skills

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

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Informational Outlines 3

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

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Strong and Supportive Details in Opinion Texts

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

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What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in 3-4 sentences.

Support your EL students in understanding and identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text. This can support the lesson Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details.

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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

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Detective Reading

Informational texts isn't just found in textbooks. In this reading lesson, kids will examine the writing of a middle school student and use it to learn more about main ideas and supporting details.

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Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

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Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Help your students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text by giving them high-interest nonfiction texts to read.

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State Your Claim

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

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Discovering Details

Use this sample paragraph and outline to help students write their own informational paragraphs.

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