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Informative writing unit following common core standards!
**Common Core standards- W.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name ...
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Here it is...an all new and improved, and Common Core beefed up, Non-fiction Conventions Notebook...now called "My Informational Text Features No...
With the Common Core's increased emphasis on nonfiction, this packet with be very helpful in keeping your students engaged and involved in a wide...
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One of my BEST SELLERS!! Get your non-fiction unit started off on the right foot. Help students learn non-fiction text features (what they are ...
This unit was developed to include many of the instructional shifts of the Common Core. I wanted my students reading text closer to their level a...
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Talking Sticks is a management strategy that encourages all students to participate equally in a discussion. It can be used with the class after ...
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This 58 page packet is the perfect resource for teaching biographical figures. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington Carver, Th...
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This unit includes a mini book to inform your students about mammals. Also you will find:
ABC order
Mammal writing
Mammals can,have,are
Mamm...
This project was designed to assess students' knowledge about text features at the end of our text feature study. Using the common core as a guid...
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Wow!! This was a seriously an amazing learning experience for my first graders! This is a step by step guide of how to launch, model, and see non...
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Go beyond hunting around! Teach these 25 text features with specifically designed nonfiction articles!
There are so many text features! This uni...
This pack is filled with effective lessons for teaching nonfiction text features.
Your students will understand the terms that go with inf...
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This unit is a study based on the book, The Story of Ruby Bridges. The unit includes: lesson plans for a week, a craftivity with a writing assig...
Spiders! Amazing Arachnids Shared Reading Non-Fiction Book This non-fiction book uses real photos to support the detailed information. Many spide...
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This pack includes 19 colorful strategy posters for teaching informational text. With such a strong emphasis on informational text in the Common...
These signs can be cut and backed with construction paper to be displayed in a classroom to help students understand what each non-fiction text f...
This is a four week Common Core, Non Fiction reading unit that explores the arctic circle. It is integrated with science and social studies and ...
It can be quite difficult to find inexpensive nonfiction texts for guided reading with young children. This nonfiction polar bear text may help!...
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This 52-page nonfiction unit is perfect for your students to practice reading nonfiction and learning about 2 different types of penguins. In th...
This Dinosaur themed literacy center is 54 pages and packed with the following items:
Dinosaurs tree map, bubble map, and circle map
Dinosaur wr...
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This packet of printables and ideas will help to meet the common core standards for reading and reponding to informational text. The printables a...
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Lifelong Tool
This is a bundle pack of all five of my Georgia regions printable books. Regions included are Swamp, Ocean, Coastal Plain, Piedmont, and Mountain...
A student-ready biography report template that makes biography writing easy and organized! This is meant to be put together as a booklet by bind...
Use this graphic organizer throughout the week to teach non-fiction text features!
Model with it on Monday.
Pair Students on Tuesday and Wednesd...
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This is a worksheet to be used when learning about text features.
This scavenger hunt goes along with the Non-Fiction Text Feature Poster set. ...
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Students can use this 2 page (10 question) quiz with just about any nonfiction book! Open ended questions ask students to located specific featu...
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This nonfiction unit seeks to celebrate the bravery and contributions of: Booker T. Washington, Jesse Owens, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass,...
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This is a set of mentor texts to be used when teaching a "how to" books writing unit. It is difficult to find mentor texts in the library that r...
This is a poster set of non-fiction text features.
With the Common Core we are being asked to expose our students to a lot more non-fiction. Tea...
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Includes a variety of resources to use with you penguin unit!
Common Core Standards Addressed:
Grade 2 RIT
Grade 3 RIT
Grade 4 RIT
Grade 2-4 W...
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This presentation works perfectly by itself, however was intended to compliment my Nonfiction Text Feature Activities with Real Nonfiction Articl...
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This is an animal research project created to share information about any animal. Your students will practice reading and research skills (writin...
This is book 5 in my series of historical figures. It is a more comprehensive unit in that I have incorporated science and the study of plants in...
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Show your students how good nonfiction readers use text conventions to understand information by using these helpful reading response sheets. Thi...
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I'm so excited to share this unit! I have used this unit to assess my second graders on Common Core Reading Informational and Reading Literary St...
This packet can be used in two ways:
1. Have students create text features in the minibook for a topic of their choice OR
2. Have students find e...
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Your students will be penguin experts with this is integrated unit designed to correlate with the common core standards of informational text a...
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14 awesome individual trifolds to use with guided reading! Each trifold focuses on one skill/strategy. They are designed so you can model a skill...
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This file contains a 15 page book about the phases of the moon. It is intended for first and second grade but could also be used for third grade...
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This is a great unit to teach your children about mammals and their characteristics. It is made up of five animals that live in the African Safa...
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This fun research packet gives students a place to take notes on a planet. Here is what you get in this packet:
- a fun research page with guid...
Studying Pilgrims?
We created a child-friendly non-fiction Pilgrim reader perfect for elementary aged students.
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Who were the Pilgrims?...
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16 page book about different rain forest animals like the gorilla, anaconda, and bental tiger. Includes 2 pages for each animal and what makes i...
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I designed this bat unit to align with the Common Core and bring more informational reading and writing into my curriculum.
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*circle ma...
This file is a page literature study download for the books Remarkable Reindeer by Jeff Bauer and The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett.
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Enjoy this FREE, colorful "Non-Fiction Text Structure" Student Reference Sheet to introduce or review the five most common non-fiction text struc...
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This 25 page Columbus unit includes fun and engaging literacy and social studies activities. The following is included in this unit:
"A New Worl...
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A primary focus of the Common Core Standards is nonfiction reading and writing. In order for our students to become proficient readers, they need...
$5.00 116 pages! My students loved this integrated unit to accompany the Caldecott award winning book Snowflake Bentley. There are so many acti...
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Are you gearing up to do a non-fiction unit of study with your students this Spring?
If so, and you are planning on having your students learn a...
