Informational text comprehension strategies

Teaching Students to Comprehend Nonfiction - Raise the Bar Reading

Don’t let teaching nonfiction text structures be a bore. These sweet and simple nonfiction passages & paired graphic organizers are guaranteed to make teaching text structures engaging like never before! See how I provided students with a multisensory experience when reviewing informational text structures. Click on the link to read more!

Due to an overwhelming request by the devoted readers of this blog, I am revising this original post to include pdf's of the Guidelines for Critical Thinking rubric and the Code of Cooperation. Scroll down to find them in context. **Also note, I've recently posted my newest Common Core Information Text Reading bundle** If information literacy is central to success, survival, schooling, workplace and the community, then the teaching of information literacy and all the skills that it entails…

Have students who just can't remember what they have read? I have ten reading comprehension strategies to use right away to help them out!

Identifying and understanding text structures is such an important reading skill for students. Grab several free text structure activities on this post!

Get MORE out of teaching nonfiction by using this awesome reading comprehension strategy called THIEVES! Come read all about it!

This post is full of ideas for mentor texts that you can use to teach upper elementary students Informational Text Structures. Using picture books to help 3rd - 6th grade students understand text structures like Description, Cause and Effect, Order and Sequence, Compare and Contrast and problem and Solution is an effective teaching tool. The post also includes a link to a FREE list of my favorite mentor texts for text structures.

Today we are going to address one of the big dogs of upper elementary reading education...introducing text structure.

One of my favorite ways to review Informational Text Structures with upper elementary kids is to organize a text structure scavenger hunt! First, I teach each of the five text structures: 1. Description 2. Order and Sequence 3. Cause and Effect 4. Compare and Contrast 5. Problem and Solution After I’ve taught all five of […]

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