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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: An Elephant's Excellent Trunk

For Teachers 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an informational text about elephants and answers questions about reading comprehension, supporting details, main idea, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text questions are...

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Read Works: Passages: A Shell Is Great Protection

For Teachers 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read an informational text about turtles and answers questions about reading comprehension, supporting details, main idea, and more. Links to a paired text and paired text questions are provided.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Comprehensive Assessment: Nonfiction [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Questions are provided to help students determine the main idea, topic, purpose, and opinion of a piece of nonfiction. Students are prompted to write a summary of the informational text.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Think Clearly: Analyze Support a Position[pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable worksheet. Students will read a nonfiction article and then write about scaffolded prompts that will help them determine the strength of evidence presented in the argument.

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University of Sydney (Australia)

University of Sydney: The Write Site: Evaluating Your Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This essay resource teaches students how to select the type of evidence that best lends weight and credibility to their topics and how to organize the evidence effectively. A chart is provided as a quick reference. Click on pages 2-4 at...

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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Libraries: Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This interactive site focuses on the power of illustration in books. It discusses illustrations that inspire, inform, influence, and show a process; it provides examples and book references that use each.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare Articles [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

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

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The Life of a Monarch Butterfly

For Teachers K - 1st

Students love the magic of the metamorphosis that produces a butterfly. We will listen to the story and write about our favorite part and include a picture. Examples of the student's work are included.

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Read Works: Lesson 2: Using Pictures to Support the Main Idea

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will peruse the pictures of an informational text to predict the topic of the book.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Summarize Informational/expository Text (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to evaluate a summary of the original text for accuracy of the main ideas, supporting details, and overall meaning.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Texts

For Students 4th - 7th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres (including literary...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas in Informational/expository Text

For Students 7th - 9th Standards

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Better Lesson: Arctic v. Antarctic

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Students will be able to identify similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic. After reading and discussing books on the Arctic and Antarctic, they will use a Venn diagram and assorted images to compare and contrast...

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Education.com

Education.com: Compare and Contrast Non Fiction Stories: Extinct Birds

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will compare two informational texts about two extinct birds, the Great Auk and the Dodo. A Venn Diagram is provided to be used when comparing an contrasting tests.

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BBC

Bbc: Ks2 Bitesize English: Reading

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

This site provides activities, games, tests, and worksheets in reading areas: deduction, dictionaries, poetry, and non-fiction.

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CommonLit

Common Lit: Where Did I Come From

For Students 5th - 6th Standards

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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Common Lit: Women in Ancient Rome

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

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Common Lit: Workers' Rights and the History of Labor Unions

For Students 7th - 8th Standards

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

For Students 7th - 8th

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Common Lit: "You Can Buy Happiness, if It's an Experience" by Maanvi Singh

For Students 7th - 8th

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

For Students 5th - 6th

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Common Lit: Voice of Witness: A Sudanese Refugee's Oral History

For Students 7th - 8th

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

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Common Lit: War in Sudan

For Students 7th - 8th

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Common Lit: "What Is an Eclipse?" by Nasa

For Students 7th - 8th Standards

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