Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Understand Content Words

Understand how to use content words and context clues to identify unknown words in a reading passage.

Learn about quoting accurately and making inferences on this site. A link provides a model with text and supported inferences.

Learn how to use context clues to help you define precise vocabulary words that you may not know.

Learn about the different perspectives that can be used in an informational text.

This quick activity includes a passage from an information text, and explains reading comprehension strategies to use to answer questions.

This article will help you evaluate informational text to determine whether an author's argument is supported by evidence or not. Click on Model to see a model with explanations and then click on Practice.

Compare the text structures in two nonfiction passages in this tutorial.

Learn about the difference between a firsthand and secondhand accounts in a text on this site.

Learn how information in a text can be connected through compare and contrast, cause and effect, and sequence.

Reasons and evidence are given by the author to support topics or ideas. In this resource, learn about finding reasons and evidence in a text. Includes downloadable worksheet.