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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Night by Elie Weisel

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read "No News from Auschwitz" and answer the study questions as an introduction to the novel. They record reactions to the essay and compare with reactions after reading "Night".
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Growing Flowers

For Teachers K - 6th
Students grow flowers from seeds. They plant quick-growing seeds in a flower pot and consider what a seed needs to grow. They observe and record the growth of the planted seeds in science journals.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Sense of Place

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and describe one or two places significant to them using vivid language. They describe one of those important places in accurate, evocative language showing an original perspective.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Teaching Language Arts in Kindergarten Using Stories, Aesop's Fables, and Tall Tales

For Teachers K
Students search into a variety of story elements in the eight lessons of this unit. The title, author, illustrator, setting, main character, problem, solution, events and the story are the components of the lessons.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Make Way for Ducklings

For Teachers 1st
First graders use skills to collect, organize, and interpret data. They compare and contrast two stories, Make Way for Ducklings and Chibi: A True Story From Japan. Students create a duckling.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tasmanian Time Travel

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders perform research using the Internet about the Tasmanian Devil. The project can be presented in a variety of ways. The use of computer software is important for students to know, specifically Hyperstudio.
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Unit Plan
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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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading/writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
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Article
Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: How to Read Nonfiction Text

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Kids love to read about real people, places, and events. Nonfiction books present real information in engaging and interesting ways. However, most kids read a lot more fiction than nonfiction, so spend some extra time helping your reader...
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Compare Text Structures

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Compare the text structures in two nonfiction passages in this tutorial.
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Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Evaluate Arguments and Claims

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Enlightening Explorations, Part Iii

For Teachers 6th
This lesson contains the following labs: Rainbows, Refraction with Prisms, and What Color Is It? Students will study light by reading various nonfiction texts and viewing a video lesson. Then students will engage in the following labs:...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Features

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to videos and images to use while learning about text features in a nonfiction text.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Features

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to images, graphic organizers, and a video on recognizing text features in nonfiction texts.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Features

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
A nine-part learning module with links images and videos for use while learning about nonfiction text features.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Flash Cards: Vocabulary 1: Nonfiction

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
These interactive flashcards focuses on terms relating to nonfiction. These terms include the following: nonfiction, fiction, glossary, index, table of contents, headings, subheadings, caption, boldface, italicized, preface, sidebar, and...
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Article
Scholastic

Scholastic: Investigating Nonfiction Part 3: Independent and Guided Reading

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This article provides tips for using nonfiction with guided reading and independent reading. The following strategies are shared: ways to help kids select "just right" nonfiction books; lessons to use with nonfiction in guided reading...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Keys to Happiness: Partly Genetic, but You Control the Rest

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "The Keys to Happiness: Partly Genetic, But You Control the Rest" by ABC News, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Madness of Humanity Part 3: Tribalism

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "The Madness of Humanity Part 3: Tribalism" by Marcelo Gleiser, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: American Government the Bill of Rights Part Ii

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains a few parts of the Bill of Rights. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Structures

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A thirty-part learning module on text structures including description, sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and cause and effect. Lessons include links to pictures, story text, informational text, videos, charts,...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Volcanoes: Magma Rising: Studying Volcanoes

For Students 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This two-page PDF nonfiction passage entitled "Volcanoes: Magma Rising: Studying Volcanoes" discusses how they study volcanoes to learn how they work. It is part of Paired Texts: "Volcanoes: Magma...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Truman and His Doctrine: Revolutionary, Unprecedented, and Bipartisan

For Students 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This 5-page PDF is the nonfiction article "Truman and His Doctrine: Revolutionary, Unprecedented, and Bipartisan" by Elizabeth Edwards Spalding which discusses Truman's policy to provide aid to Turkey...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Connections Pompeii in Poetry, Fiction and Nonfiction

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites that demonstrate text connections through various texts about Pompeii.