Do your students struggle with informational text? We know they are being asked to read and understand more informational text than ever before. To help you out, I put together an Informational Text Toolbox. These "teaching tools" will help your students read, understand, and use informational text.

This Informational Text Toolbox is jam packed with everything you need to teach, practice, and review information text throughout the whole year! It is filled with tools to help you go from whole class instruction to student application and practice.

To meet different teaching styles, I created anchor charts in 3 different versions. One is ready to print and use in your lesson. One has the headings so you can write in the information as you teach. And one has only the title, so you have the freedom to write in everything else, just the way you like it!

❤️ Instructions for how to print a large poster is included!

✏️Anchor Charts Topics:

•Types of Informational Text (narrative, expository, persuasive and procedural)

•Text Feature Overview (organize text, graphics, fonts and facts)

•Organize Text (table of contents, index, glossary, heading/subheadings

•Graphics (photographs, illustrations, diagrams, labels, captions)

•Fonts (bold, italics, color, size, underline)

•facts (maps, tables or charts, graphs, timeline)

✏️Student Activities:

•Informational Text Museum Walk (narrative, expository, persuasive and procedural)

•Hot on the Trail, text feature search

•Take a Closer Look, text feature mini-book (My students love this!)

✏️10 graphic organizers (corresponding pages for an interactive notebook)

•Thinking about the Text (main idea and details)

•Read and Recall 3-2-1 (learned, interesting facts, still curious)

•V.I.T. (Very Important Text), words, facts and questions

•A.R.E.A. (Ask, Read, Evidence and Answer)

•Get the Picture, illustration and summary

•Cause and Effect

•Sequence Chart, for 4 and 6 events

•Stop and Jot Notes

•Compare and Contrast

•Know, Know, Know chart

•Thinking Stems for learning journal responses.

✏️Finally, there is an 8-project choice board

•magazine article

•museum poster

•five false facts

•magazine cover

•picture dictionary

•travel brochure

•pop-up display

•game board

All directions, check list, organizers, and final copy pages are included for these projects.

Teachers like you have said . .

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wow! What a wonderful product. I have used this resource every year for interactive notebooks. My students really enjoy the organizers.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ My language arts class has been chugging along through though this skill. They enjoy all the different ways we can review the same material. Thanks!

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This product was useful in a lot of different ways. My students especially enjoyed the choice boards!

You won’t regret adding this to your resource library. Buy it once and use it again and again!

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If you have any questions you can contact me through the Product Q and A on this page, or email: debbie@crockettsclassroom.com

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