Weird and Gross: High-Interest Informational Text Passages

These four passages are an interesting way to incorporate informational text into classroom lessons. Students will learn unusual facts about insects, plants, and animals as they practice inference skills, contrasting ideas, and do close reading. Each high-interest passage comes with a close reading prompt, a written response answer key and two additional graphic organizers that can be used with any text.

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This is great for reading instruction, test review, and Common Core.

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