Informational+Text

=Informational Text Resources and Ideas=

Introduction Activity:
I Have a Dream Speech (Using Primary Sources)

What is Informational Text?
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//Informational text is defined as text with the primary purpose of expressing information about the arts, sciences, or social studies. This text ranges from newspaper and magazine articles to digital information to nonfiction trade books to textbooks and reference materials.// //The CCSS specify four types of informational text: literary nonfiction, expository, argument or persuasion, and procedural. -from "Booklist" article, American Library Association//

Scholastic Article: The Difference Between Informational Text and Non-fiction
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Types of Informational Text:
Pass around examples...

Why do we read Informational Text?
Brainstorm list

Text Structure
Compare and Contrast Problem/Solution Question/Answer Description Chronological Cause and Effect

Text Features
Why are there text features? Teaching tools for text features: []
 * Authors include text features to help the reader better understand what they have read.
 * Text features provide information that may not be written in the text itself.
 * Text features can be found in textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other forms of nonfiction text.
 * Bold
 * Graphs
 * Maps
 * Illustrations
 * Diagrams
 * Clipart
 * All Caps
 * Color
 * Italics
 * Underline
 * Highlight
 * Borders
 * Headings
 * Table of Contents
 * Insets and sidebars
 * Bullets
 * Numbering
 * Asterisks
 * Stars
 * Timelines
 * Glossary
 * Captions and Labels

Wonderopolis
[] Can you grow candy corn? []

How-to guide
How to make an erupting volcano []
 * What supplies do you need?
 * What will you do first?
 * What is the last thing you will need to do?
 * Where should you do thist activity?
 * What is a question you have?
 * Do you think you could do this?
 * What are some things that might go wrong?

Infographic
Bullying Infographic- Looking for Text Features 3-2-1 sheet: []

What is happening in the Photo?
Close Observation and Purposeful Questions [] Photo []

Primary Source- Hide & Seek
Hide & Seek on Mulberry Street []

Newspaper
From Reading Rockets: Newspaper Activity ideas Searching the Paper Have your students find each of the following in the newspaper:
 * Skills:** Student effectively skims and scans for information.
 * someone wearing glasses
 * map
 * animal
 * television listing
 * the name of your city
 * athlete
 * action word
 * television star
 * cartoon
 * story about another country
 * letter from a reader
 * movie review or ad

Collaborative Strategic Reading
Before reading: During reading: After Reading
 * Preview-Brainstorm, Predict
 * Purpose-Set a purpose, Why am I reading this?
 * Click-What did I learn
 * Clunk-What was hard to understand?
 * Connect-What did I know before that I can connect to this new information?
 * Get the Gist-What is the most important person/place/thing in this section?
 * Wrap it up-Ask questions, clarify
 * Monitor for Understanding-Review, what did we learn?

Discovery Education Informational Text Lessons/Activities
From Discovery Education, Log in, then click on: 1) Streaming Plus (from drop down menu- My DE Services) 2) Choose Grade Level 3) Choose Reading: Informational Text 4) Choose Cluster 5) Select Standard 6) Choose lesson/activity

CCSS Appendix B-Examples of Informational Texts (Pages 28-35)
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eReading Worksheet-
Detecting types of text structure and pulling out examples []

//The Common Core Lesson Book//
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How to get to Library of Congress Primary Source Theme sets
(they did the work for you!) []

Library of Congress
Informational Text resources [] Analyze a Primary Source [] Analyzing Primary Source Materials-Matching up to Reading Anchor Standards [] Thinking Triangle []

Strategies for Reading Informational Text
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Read.Write.Think.
ReadWriteThink- Building Comprehension with Informational Text

DEA Examples: 2nd grade: 3rd grade: 4th grade: 5th grade