Informational text features task cards (nonfiction and STAAR) will give you reading task cards that are highly engaging, aligned, rigorous, and kids love them! It's simply rigor made easy.

Multiple-Choice Question Stems:

•What would be the best heading for this section?

•Why does the author include this photograph?

•Which idea is supported by the timeline?

•The caption under the photograph explains –

•To learn ________, the reader should refer to the -

Nonfiction Comprehension Skills

•Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text.

•Determine the central idea of a section of text.

•Analyze features such as sections, tables, graphs, timelines, bullets, numbers, and bold and italicized font to support understanding.

•Evaluate details to determine key ideas.

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Common Core Alignment

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.5Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2.AIntroduce a topic clearly and group related information in paragraphs and sections; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

New 2018 TEKS Alignment

TEKS 3.9D; 4.9D; 5.9D: recognize characteristics and structures of informational text

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INFORMATIONAL [EXPOSITORY]

⚫Summarizing Informational Text #4 - Nature & Wildlife

⚫Summarizing Informational Text #5 - Financial Literacy

⚫Close Reading - Christmas Around the World

⚫Close Reading - George Washington Carver

GOVERNMENT

⚫Three Branches of Government (FREE)

⚫Reading Skills in Comic Strips (Founding Documents)

BIOGRAPHIES

⚫Sequencing Task Cards #1 - Ellen Ochoa

⚫Sequencing Task Cards #2 - Helen Keller

⚫Sequencing Task Cards #3 - Mary Kay Ash

⚫Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #7 - Rosa Parks

⚫Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #8 - Martin Luther King Jr.

⚫Drawing Conclusions Task Cards #9 - Jackie Robinson

STAAR WARM-UPS

More great Reading Comprehension Resources:

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⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 4th Grade #1

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 4th Grade #2

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 5th-6th Grade #1

⚫STAAR Reading Daily Warm Ups 5th-6th Grade #2

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