[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Giant Pandas by Gail Gibbons to teach young scholars how to identify facts learned from an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed to teach students to identify explicit information in nonfiction and fiction texts. Lessons are based on the books Deserts (A True Book-Ecosystems) by Darlene R. Stille and The Stories Huey...

Before, during, and after-reading ideas for introducing students to informational texts in the early-elementary grades in order to boost reading achievement through the upper-elementary grades.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach students how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students will take notes as they read Animal Homes by Ann O. Squire. This information will then be organized into an outline. Includes printable materials for teacher and students.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will develop research questions, classify information into an outline form, and use the features of nonfiction writing to identify information relevant to a research question.

This learning module contains a link to graphic organizers that will help students categorize content and comprehend short and extended texts. The graphic organizers are designed to be applied to reading nonfiction passages in science...

This page has links to lots of pages full of information about beetles. They are categorized by common name so that it is easy to find what you're looking for. Each page includes a description and information about controlling potential...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage includes the information about how to stay healthy for life. This passage is intended as a guided passage to instruct students how to classify and categorize information.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how different types of animals prepare for winter. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about modern technology helping students to learn more about some of America's most notable presidents. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and...

During this lesson, students will listen to a poem about a balanced diet and create a foldable. In each section of the foldable, students will include information about a different food group and will use this creation as a study guide.

Three lessons on different types of data (qualitative, quantitative, univariate, bivariate, biased data) as well as a practice activity and teacher resource.

This slideshow gives a detailed explanation of the characteristics of statistical questions and how they differ from other types of questions, the types of studies, and the methods for collecting data. It describes the case of Clever...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about four endangered animals that are increasing in population, the gray wolf, the bald eagle, the grizzly bear, and the Sumatran rhinoceros. A question sheet is available to help...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about a skin fungus causing the harlequin frog species to become endangered. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about a new leopard species found in Indonesia. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about jaguars, tigers, and other big cats that have become endangered species. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about four endangered mammals: the golden-crowned sifaka, the long-beaked echidna, the red panda, and the Saiga antelope. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about new insect species found within caves. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.

"Native American Life--Potawatomi Profile" is a one page, non-fiction, first person reading/thinking passage about the Potawatomi Native American tribe. It includes information about what they did during each of the seasons of the year.

Series of interactive activities for practicing skills in summarizing information, in identifying main points and ideas, and in sorting lists into meaningful categories.

Fuzz Bugs is fun activity for Pre-K and Kindergarten children to practice counting, sorting, and comparing. Kids will interact with funny little Fuzz Bugs to complete several tasks that include: categorizing by color, counting to ten,...

Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.