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  Informational Texts for Interactive Notebook. Task Cards, Literacy Center Discount Bundle (Main Idea)

  $10.00

  Informational Texts about Animals

  The 12 informational articles in “Things I Didn’t Know About Animals” are designed to help students grasp the concept of main idea and spot supporting details. The texts are short, compact, and filled with unusual and interesting facts to motivate young readers.

  To give teachers multiple use options, this material is posted in a zip file in two different formats.

  Informational Text Task Card Format:

  • The Task Card/Literacy Center format is a single, full-page presentation with the article on the left and a set of 3-5 questions on the right. In addition to main idea and supporting details the questions also address sequencing, cause and effect, inference, and using context clues to determine word meaning. Answer forms are included. This format can be used as a whole class lesson.

  Informational Text Interactive Notebook Format:

  • The Interactive Notebook version includes the same set of 12 informational texts and questions, both resized and reformatted for the right side of the notebook as a flip two-layer page. Two additional response forms, also in flip-page style, are provided for the left side. Teachers may choose to use the prepared forms, or allow students to create their own response designs

  Full answer keys are included.

  These pages are appropriate for 4^th-6^th grade classrooms and some 7^th and 8^th grade students. Motivated 3^rd graders will also enjoy these articles.

  View Sample Pages of both formats HERE

  The two different formats for these texts can be purchased separately at $5 each.  This bundled zip file offers a savings of $2.

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  Informational Text for November: Pumpkins and a Thanksgiving Parade

  $6.50

  In America, nothing says Thanksgiving and Halloween like pumpkins, and they are the first featured article in this November Informational Text Pack. Surprisingly, this common fruit (or is it a vegetable?) has some interesting facts in its history and in its present.

  The giant balloons of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade are the focus of the second article. Since their beginning in 1926, the balloons have exploded, floated away, banged into lampposts, and poured water on spectators. The balloons have been naughty at times, but the parade wouldn’t be the same without them!

  Pumpkin Surprises has 14 CCSS-aligned questions and Parade in the Sky has 15.
  For teacher convenience, targeted CCSS skills are located in the answer keys rather than on the question page.
  Full answer keys are provided.

  View sample pages HERE.
  
  
  

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  Informational Text Pack for January: Peanuts and Peanut Butter

  $6.50

  This Informational Text Pack begins with “January 24th:  National Peanut Butter Day in the U.S.”.  The article focuses on one of our favorite foods and traces its development from its South American roots, through its growth in popularity, to its debut as a homogenized smooth or crunchy commercial product.  It also introduces students to “arachibutyrophobia,” the terrible, awful, debilitating fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of one’s mouth.

  The second article “How the Peanuts Gang Got Its Name” takes a look at how Charles Schulz was forced to give up the original name he attached to his famous cast of characters and accept one he never warmed up to—“Peanuts!”

  Each text is two pages long and comes with a set of 15 CCSS aligned questions.
  Full answer keys, with specific CCSS alignments listed for each question, are included.

  As a bonus, I have added a two-page list of left-over peanut and peanut butter facts that students can use to write their own informational texts.   Or, teachers can easily transform them into task cards.

  Download the sample pages HERE.  (Use back arrow to return to this page.)

  
  
  

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