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Informational Text Practice

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This informational text resource includes five magazine-style pages of non-fiction, or informational text, reading comprehension passages, each with text-based questions and a follow-up activity. Each article includes:Informational text page - With

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

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Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.10

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Close Reading - Freedom of the Press

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Freedom of the Press, or Journalism - 5 articles with everything needed for a full three readings. Along with each full-page reading comprehension passage, there are text-dependent questions and additional activities specific to the reading, a

Subjects:

Civics, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4

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BIG Reading Task Card Bundle - Print and Easel Versions

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Reading Task Card Sets for story elements, text structures, and various close reading or comprehension skills, plus seasonal themed sets. Seventeen sets of task cards with 30 cards per set for the review and practice that students need. Here is

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Literature, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

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RL.4.1, RL.4.2, RL.4.3, RL.5.1, RL.5.2, RL.5.3, RL.6.1, RL.6.2, RL.6.3, RL.7.1, RL.7.2...

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Close Reading - Exploring the Solar System

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Reading comprehension passages about the solar system, planets, space exploration, and space technology - Each of the 6 articles has everything needed for a full three readings. In addition to the full-page non-fiction articles, there are

Subjects:

Science, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4

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Close Reading- Elections

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Four reading comprehension passages on election topics including primaries, campaigns, and voting machines have everything needed for full close reading lessons. In addition to the full-page informational articles, there are text-dependent questions

Subjects:

Civics, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4

$4.75

Digital Download PDF (17.48 MB)

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Cause and Effect- Text Structure Task Cards - Print and Easel Versions

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With this set of Cause and Effect Task Cards students learn to really understand the text structure of cause and effect as they practice with a variety of cause and effect situations.The cause and effect situations included in this set of task cards

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Literature, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Task Cards

CCSS:

RI.4.5, RI.5.5, RI.6.5, RI.7.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.10

$3.75

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Close Reading - Women's Suffrage

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Winning the Vote is an informational text article with everything needed for a full three readings. In addition to the full-page reading comprehension passage, there are text-dependent questions and additional activities specific to each reading.

Subjects:

Informational Text, Close Reading, Women's History Month

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2

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Digital Download PDF (5.17 MB)

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Close Reading - Wild Winter

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These five reading comprehension passages on winter topics sure to interest middle-grade readers have everything needed for a full three readings. In addition to the full-page informational articles, there are text-dependent questions and

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4

$4.75

Digital Download PDF (21.86 MB)

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Compare and Contrast Task Cards and Google Slides

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Compare and Contrast Task Cards - Digital Resource for Google Slides – students learn to really understand the text structure of compare and contrast. The cards have a variety of activities for plenty of practice on this essential reading

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading Strategies, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Activities, Task Cards, Google Apps

CCSS:

RI.4.5, RI.5.5, RI.6.5, RI.7.5, CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.10

$3.75

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Informational Text - Celebrations

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Labor Day, Autumn, Thanksgiving, Presidents Day, Martin Luther King Day, St. Patrick's Day, Earth Day, and Veterans Day - this informational text resource includes eight magazine-style pages of non-fiction, or informational, reading comprehension

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Reading, Informational Text

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.10

$6.75

Digital Download PDF (18.70 MB)

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Informational Text - Peaceful Transition of Power

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Peaceful Transition of Power, a feature of our democracy that middle-grade kids will be proud to learn about, is the topic of this magazine-style reading page. In addition to the reading comprehension page, there are close reading questions and an

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Informational Text, Close Reading

Grades:

4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Printables

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.R.10

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Digital Download PDF (4.37 MB)

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

My experience includes about twenty-eight years of teaching, mainly in middle school. For most of that time, I taught English and Reading, as well as a variety of other subjects in inclusion and self-contained classes. At TPT, I focus on creating Language Arts and Reading resources that are engaging for students and helpful for teachers. I continue to teach by volunteering in a literacy tutoring program.

MY TEACHING STYLE

My style is all about the middle grades, mainly grades 4 through 7. My goal is to create teaching resources that appeal to the active learning style of middle grade kids by using original written passages, colorful designs, and age-appropriate graphics.

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

My favorite reward from teaching is watching kids get really engaged in classroom activities. Hearing that other teachers find my resources useful and reading comments about how their kids enjoy the activities is very rewarding, too.

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

My bachelor's degree is in secondary education with a major in English, and my master's degree is in special education.

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English Language Arts, Creative Writing, Writing-Expository, Reading, Grammar, Vocabulary, Specialty, Science, Social Studies - History, Civics, Literature, Writing, Reading Strategies, Writing-Essays, Holidays/Seasonal, Back to School, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Poetry, Autumn, Winter, For All Subjects, Summer, Informational Text, Close Reading, Women's History Month

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