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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Nonfiction Passage Questions[pdf]
This site contains questions for each passage are provided. Graphic organizers are available for these copyrighted materials that may be used for educational purposes.
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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Biography Questions [Pdf]
This graphic organizer contains questions for students to answer as they read a biography. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: How Does Writer Organize Nonfiction Text?[pdf]
This poster contains writing craft questions for students to ask when reading nonfiction. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Nonfict Readers Analyze Structure/views[pdf]
This graphic organizer contains questions for students as they analyze any nonfiction text. Students will read closely to determine the text's structure, viewpoint, and tone. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be...
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]
This graphic organizer contains questions for students as they analyze a constructed response question. Students will read the question closely and use this planning tool to plan constructed responses. This graphic organizer is a...
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prose Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing two nonfiction texts and a video. After completing the graphic organizer, students will use its contents to write a constructed...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: History Thinker: Analyze Then Summarize [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable worksheet. Students will read about a historical event and answer scaffolded questions that will help them retell what happened, explain the causes and effects, and then...
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Comprehensive Questions: Nonfiction [Pdf]
Questions are provided to help students determine the main idea, topic, and fact versus opinion of a nonfiction piece. Students are prompted to write a summary of an informational text.
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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Expand Thinking With Drama [Pdf]
The Center for Urban Education provides a graphic organizer for students to use as a planning tool. Students will write a play based on what they read or on the content they learn in other subject areas.
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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Content Vocabulary [Pdf]
This graphic organizer will assist student with learning technical words from content area reading. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be used for educational purposes.
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: One Page Nonfiction Readings: Grade 6
This site contains 17 nonfiction articles that are appropriate for students with a 6th grade reading level, as measured by the Fry Formula. Questions for each passage are provided. Graphic organizers are available for these copyrighted...
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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Guide Nonfiction Reading
This site contains 17 nonfiction articles that are appropriate for students with a 6th grade reading level, as measured by the Fry Formula. Questions for each passage are provided. These graphic organizers are copyrighted and may be used...
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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Guide/assess Nonfiction Reading
This site contains 47 one-page guided writing and reading guides and assessments.The reproducibles are copyrighted materials but may be copied and used for educational purposes.
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Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Illustration Planner [Pdf]
Students will read a piece of nonfiction and then use their own copy of this reproducible sheet to plan a text-based illustration.
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Analyze Hist: Challenge, Choice, Changes [Pdf]
Students can use this chart to help them analyze the cause(s) and effect(s) of historical events. Students will identify historical events and then identify the effects that follow afterward. Extension questions are provided after the...
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Comprehensive Assessment: Nonfiction [Pdf]
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.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Think Clearly: Analyze Support a Position[pdf]
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.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Prose Constructed Response Organizer [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for preparing a constructed response that must compare three sources: two articles and a video.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare Articles [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing and contrasting nonfiction articles.
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare Central Idea Across Mult Texts [Pdf]
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer designed for comparing a central idea across multiple texts.
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Use Evidence to Show How a Writer Supports
This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer for students to use when analyzing the evidence that authors use to support a claim. RI.9-10.5 ideas/claims developed. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.8
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: A Better Community [Pdf]
"A Better Community" is a one page, fictional reading passage that focuses on recycling. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes skills such as sequencing,...
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing Our Street [Pdf]
"Changing Our Street" is a one page, realistic fiction, reading passage about how the problem of people driving too fast in a neighborhood was solved. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide...
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De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing Transportation Routes [Pdf]
"Changing Transportation Routes" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about how the problem of public transportation could be solved through the process of surveying the community, developing a workable solution, and presenting it...