Explore a variety of informational texts (e.g., books, charts, newspapers, magazines). 0101.6.3

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1. Explicit Information in Fiction - In this lesson plan students will use explicit information to answer questions about a fiction text.
2. Getting First Graders Started With Research - Teaching academically honest research skills helps first graders learn how to collect, organize, and interpret information.
3. How to Use Magazines in the Classroom to engage your young readers - Classroom magazines always cover trendy, high-interest topics, making them an excellent alternative to engaging with your students through text.
4. Informational Text for Kids | Reading Comprehension Skills - In this video, students will learn what informational text is and how to understand it easily.
5. Informational Text Newspaper or Magazine “Book” Report - how a teacher created a Non-Fiction “book” report for the students in which they had to find a newspaper or magazine and pull out text features and respond to several prompts.
6. Inquiry Charts - a tool that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their ideas. To integrate prior knowledge or thoughts about the topic with additional information found in several sources.
7. It's News to Me: Teaching About The Newspaper - Explore six great sites that will help you teach about the newspaper -- before you start teaching with it! Included: Seven original ideas for teaching students about the newspaper.
8. Teaching with Informational Texts in Early Childhood - This video explains the Reading Informational Text Standards and how to use them to create reading comprehension lesson with informational texts.
9. Using Newspapers, Periodicals and other Resources to Help Your Child with Reading - It’s the newspaper-and it’s a veritable goldmine for encouraging and developing reading, thinking, and learning skills. The same is true of magazines of interest.
10. Using Text Features - In this lesson plan students will use text features in nonfiction texts to identify explicit information.

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