Informational Texts Lesson Plans & Worksheets Reviewed by Teachers

Cengage Learning

National Geographic: Informational Text and Young Children [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Research-based informative article on when, why and how to introduce and teach reading skills with informational texts to early-elementary students beginning as early as kindergarten.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Thesis, Purpose, Textual Elements in Informational Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on how to locate the controlling idea or thesis and specific purpose in a text and analyze the roles they play in understanding what you read. You will...

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Text Help: Middle Grades Informational Text [Pdf]

For Teachers 8th Standards

A useful resource with ideas for teachers to meet the Common Core Standard 8.3 for informational text. The ideas are designed for use with the program Read and Write Gold, but could be implemented on paper.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading Informational Texts Using the 3 2 1 Strategy

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Young scholars can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.

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Read Works

Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Texts: Pictures and Photographs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses All About Cats and Kittens by Emily Neye to teach learners how to identify facts from photographs and pictures in informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...

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Read Works

Read Works:genre Studies: Informational Texts Kindergarten Unit: New Information

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

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

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International Literacy Association

Ila: Unlocking the Power of Informational Text With Five Creative Ideas

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Five easy ways to help unlock the power of informational text for all students.

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Claim Evldence Reasoning [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will identify a claim, list text evidence that supports the claim, and explain how the information can be used for their future understanding of...

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

This graphic organizer can be use with students when they read an informational text. Using a Venn diagram to organize content, students will write important similarities and differences after reading an informational text and analyzing...

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Cause and Effect [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards

This graphic organizer can be used as a reading response when working with informational text. Students will write two different effects and record multiple causes for each effect.

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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Valley Forge and the American Revolution" by Barbara Radner

For Students 5th - 6th

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Egyptian Mummies" by Us history.org

For Students 7th - 8th

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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Why Dolphins Make Us Nervous" by Robert Krulwich

For Students 7th - 8th

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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Propaganda: Battling for the Mind" by Shelby Ostergaard

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

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TES Global

Blendspace: Questioning Nonfiction Text Oil Spills

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

An eight-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites to use while improving informational text skills through the topic of oil spills. The print materials have directed exercises for text analysis by students.

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Comparing and Contrasting Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This tutorial focuses on writing a comparison and contrast paper for both literary texts and informational texts. It offers a YouTube video about writing a synthesis paper using either a point by point or a source by source arrangement....

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