This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing and contrasting nonfiction articles.

Learn about how to strengthen literacy, inquiry, and problem-solving skills, and how to connect kids with high-quality nonfiction and informational books. Provides videos, articles for parents and for teachers, webcasts for teachers, and...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a Civil Rights letter from Jackie Robinson and answer questions about comprehension, persuasive text, supporting details, inferences, main idea, and more. Links to a paired text and paired...

This 2-day lesson engages students in determining and clarifying the meanings of unknown words and phrases found in Jenny Feely's nonfiction book, Butterfly. Students will exemplify their learning of new vocabulary by labeling what they...

This interactive demonstrates how a piece of primary source text can be adapted or modified for readers at different levels of proficiency in order to ensure their understanding.

This game is based on the PBS Kids' series, Plum Landing. Students will read various informational texts about invasive species. Then students will attempt to rid various regions of their invasive species.

This online textbook selection focuses on how scientists make inferences from evidence. Students are given a reading passage about underwater exploration and are asked to make inferences based on the text. The passage is followed by...

This is an 11- page PDF about Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer's book about his experience climbing Mount Everest. It includes a short summary of the book, a biography about the author, book reviews, discussion questions, an interview with...

This lesson uses graphic organizers to engage middle schoolers in reading comprehension strategies for informational text in science. Venn Diagram, Hierarchy, Time Line, Cluster Diagram, and Flow Chart reproducible pages are included...

In this lesson, 8th graders analyze and compare the propaganda techniques used in informational texts, with a particular focus on the use of testimonials. Includes links to recommended resources, scaffolding suggestions, and an...

As an introduction to the seven continents unit, 2nd graders will read and explore assorted informational texts about Africa. Students will answer the following questions to acquire knowledge about the continent: Who? What? Where? Why?...

After exposures to assorted forms of informational text and media, Istudents will identify positive and negative effects of microorganisms. Students will explore how some micooorganisms have overcome their negative attributes while...

This two-page PDF is the article "No News from Auschwitz" by A. M. Rosenthal, written after his visit to Auschwitz, the site of the Nazi concentration camp. It was published in The New York Times in 1958. RI.11-12.10b Text Complexity

Teach students to summarize nonfiction text with these lesson plans. Includes worksheets and activities that can be downloaded and printed.

This lesson focuses on the book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom about the time he spent with his sociology professor who was dying from Lou Gehrig's disease. It features links to Mitch Albom's website, a Wikipedia article about...

This lesson focuses on The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, memoirs of her growing up as a child of Chinese immigrants. It features links to an excerpt of the text, and summaries and commentaries from Shmoop and Sparknotes. There...