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Short Text for Teaching Text Structure {Vol.1} 21st Century Informational Text
Short Text for Teaching Text Structure {Vol.1} 21st Century Informational Text
Short Text for Teaching Text Structure {Vol.1} 21st Century Informational Text
Short Text for Teaching Text Structure {Vol.1} 21st Century Informational Text
Short Text for Teaching Text Structure {Vol.1} 21st Century Informational Text
Short Text for Teaching Text Structure {Vol.1} 21st Century Informational Text
Short Text for Teaching Text Structure {Vol.1} 21st Century Informational Text
Short Text for Teaching Text Structure {Vol.1} 21st Century Informational Text
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"This resource was easy to use and well-organized. My students were engaged and clearly understood the lesson objectives. It saved me a lot of prep time and aligned well with what I needed to teach. I would definitely recommend this to other teachers!"
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Kaycee G.
"I am a special education teacher teaching an intensive reading class in a high school. My students range from deficits in decoding to deficits in inferring. Having resources that are leveled is SUCH a lifesaver! I love this - and my students really like it too! "
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Ashley R.

Description

Are you looking to expand your collection of short informational text perfect for close reading? Text that you and your students can read and reread in one session? If so, then I think you will love this first volume of articles in a new Informational Text series of mine called Hello 411.

I wrote and designed these informational text articles for my students because I was looking for text that was short, interesting, looked like a real article with real photographs and were good examples of different nonfiction text structures. These articles are ideal for close reading in grades 3-8 or as read-alouds, shared reading or group reading activities in grades K-2.

And, do you have a range of readers in your class? These articles are perfect because every child can read the same article but at *their* level, it's like a differentiated class set of texts because there are five articles written (by me) at four different lexile levels ranging from 770L - 1080L. Passage topics are all related to pop culture and/or global awareness in the 21st century...basically, hot or interesting topics to kids, not time or month sensitive, and crossing boundaries of culture, ethnicity, income, and socioeconomic status. Passage titles are:

Chicken Nuggets, Anyone? (chronological order)

The Vortex of Video Games (cause/effect)

The Art of the Selfie (description)

Laundry Around the World (compare/contrast)

Polar Bear Predicament (problem/solution)

What's included:

*1 Lexile Level Correlation Sheet

*1 Close Reading Summary Page

*1 Text Comparison Chart with Links to YouTube Videos

*5 Short Informational Text Passages

*4 differentiated levels per passage

*1 Teaching Points Page with Questions

*1 Tiers of Vocabulary Chart per passage

*2 Written Comprehension Organizers per passage

*1 mini-version of each passage (4 articles/page)

*1 Sheet explaining Print & Use Options

*1 Sheet explaining options for use with Interactive Notebooks

*3 Versions of My Annotations sheets

For a visual look at this product, click on the preview.

Volume 2 HERE

Volume 3 HERE

Thanks!

Jen Jones-Hello Literacy

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© 2014, Hello 411: Short Informational Articles for Close Reading - Volume 1, by Hello Literacy, Inc. | All Rights Reserved. Licensed for single user/single classroom.

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Short Text for Teaching Text Structure {Vol.1} 21st Century Informational Text

Hello Literacy
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K - 9th
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52
Teaching Duration
1 month

What others say

"This resource was easy to use and well-organized. My students were engaged and clearly understood the lesson objectives. It saved me a lot of prep time and aligned well with what I needed to teach. I would definitely recommend this to other teachers!"
star
Kaycee G.
"I am a special education teacher teaching an intensive reading class in a high school. My students range from deficits in decoding to deficits in inferring. Having resources that are leveled is SUCH a lifesaver! I love this - and my students really like it too! "
star
Ashley R.

Description

Are you looking to expand your collection of short informational text perfect for close reading? Text that you and your students can read and reread in one session? If so, then I think you will love this first volume of articles in a new Informational Text series of mine called Hello 411.

I wrote and designed these informational text articles for my students because I was looking for text that was short, interesting, looked like a real article with real photographs and were good examples of different nonfiction text structures. These articles are ideal for close reading in grades 3-8 or as read-alouds, shared reading or group reading activities in grades K-2.

And, do you have a range of readers in your class? These articles are perfect because every child can read the same article but at *their* level, it's like a differentiated class set of texts because there are five articles written (by me) at four different lexile levels ranging from 770L - 1080L. Passage topics are all related to pop culture and/or global awareness in the 21st century...basically, hot or interesting topics to kids, not time or month sensitive, and crossing boundaries of culture, ethnicity, income, and socioeconomic status. Passage titles are:

Chicken Nuggets, Anyone? (chronological order)

The Vortex of Video Games (cause/effect)

The Art of the Selfie (description)

Laundry Around the World (compare/contrast)

Polar Bear Predicament (problem/solution)

What's included:

*1 Lexile Level Correlation Sheet

*1 Close Reading Summary Page

*1 Text Comparison Chart with Links to YouTube Videos

*5 Short Informational Text Passages

*4 differentiated levels per passage

*1 Teaching Points Page with Questions

*1 Tiers of Vocabulary Chart per passage

*2 Written Comprehension Organizers per passage

*1 mini-version of each passage (4 articles/page)

*1 Sheet explaining Print & Use Options

*1 Sheet explaining options for use with Interactive Notebooks

*3 Versions of My Annotations sheets

For a visual look at this product, click on the preview.

Volume 2 HERE

Volume 3 HERE

Thanks!

Jen Jones-Hello Literacy

Follow Hello Literacy on Facebook

Follow Hello Literacy on Instagram

Follow Hello Literacy on Twitter

Follow Hello Literacy on Pinterest

Follow Hello Literacy on Slideshare

Follow Hello Literacy on LinkedIn

© 2014, Hello 411: Short Informational Articles for Close Reading - Volume 1, by Hello Literacy, Inc. | All Rights Reserved. Licensed for single user/single classroom.

Report this resource to TPT
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I am a special education teacher teaching an intensive reading class in a high school. My students range from deficits in decoding to deficits in inferring. Having resources that are leveled is SUCH a lifesaver! I love this - and my students really like it too!
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Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
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