Category: Informational Text
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$2.75Add to CartDive into the captivating world of the African Savannah with “Learning About Lions | Reading Comprehension and Writing Activity“! This resource is designed to ignite curiosity and foster a love for learning in your students with this one-day lesson! This resource is designed to boost reading comprehension and writing skills, all while teaching fascinating facts about lions.
✨ What’s Included:
- – Engaging informational text about lions, written at a 4th-grade reading level.
- – Detailed sections covering a lion’s habitat, traits, diet, life cycle, and general facts.
- – An engaging coloring and paragraph writing activity to reinforce learning and spark creativity.
- – A comprehensive reading comprehension quiz with an answer key to assess understanding.
- – This is a PDF document for easy printing and use.
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Henry Ford was an inventor, innovator, industrialist, and entrepreneur. In this resource, students will read about Ford’s life and business journey.
After reading, students will be asked a series of questions (multiple choice and short answer) to assess comprehension.
Students will learn:
- – About Henry’s family and early life
- – What he did at the age of 16
- – When he went to, left and then returned to Detroit
- – How he was first involved in car manufacturing and when he started Ford Motor Company
- – How is business practices made a huge stir in the country
- – One of his biggest challenges…and more!
Answer Key included!
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This Abraham Lincoln Informational Text Bundle includes two products:
- Abraham Lincoln | Informational Text and Activities
- Lincoln Memorial | Informational Text and Activities
(See description below for details of each)
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Help students learn about Washington State’s Space Needle in Seattle with this reading comprehension worksheet for 5th-7th grades. This resource includes informational text, a reading comprehension worksheet and answer key.
Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 6.0
Automated Readability Index: 5.8
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In this informational text lesson, students will learn about Christmas carol, Silent Night, which is one of the world’s most well-known Christmas songs. Written in 1816 by an Austrian priest named Father Josef Mohr, it has since been translated into more than 140 different languages and was even sung as part of the ‘Christmas Truce’ during World War I in 1914. Historic facts like these are included in this informational text.
After students read the text, they will:
1. Complete a short comprehension worksheet.
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Whether you are simply looking for informational text resources or you are studying landforms, if your teaching grades 5th-8th, this resource is perfect! The resource includes 25 reading pages with questions about a given landform. Questions include both short answer and true/false.
Flesch-Kincaid levels range from 5.5 – 8.3
These are short reading passages with 5 – 7 questions after each.
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Designed for 5th-8th grade students, American Crocodile Informational Text and Crossword Puzzle will provide students with details about the only crocodile native to the Americas in the following categories:
* Appearance
* Differences from alligators
* Distribution and Habitat
* Food and Growth
* ReproductionAfter reading the text (3 pages), students are to complete the crossword puzzle. Answer Key provided.
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Susan B Anthony – Informational Text is a resource designed to give your students a better understanding of who this famous American really was and what she accomplished. Students will learn about her childhood, her work as an Abolitionist, her involvement in the Temperance movement and how she was eventually honored through their reading of one page of informational text. To help assess student understanding, I’ve included a short answer worksheet and a crossword puzzle! Answer Keys provided.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.7
Automated Readability Index: 7 -
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This cross-curricular resource will inform and assess students’ understanding of the basic process of photosynthesis. Includes both close reading and a cloze activity.
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This cross-curricular (Language Arts – Science) informational article has been designed to help students gain a better understanding of why some animals in our world are endangered. The article will list causes such the need for more land and food for humans as well as pollution and hunting. Students will also be given several examples of animals from around the world that are in danger and what we need to learn in order to make plans to help them survive.
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$3.00Add to CartStudents should understand the significance of a terrible day in American history, September 11th, 2001, otherwise known as 9-11.This resource has been designed to help students gain factual knowledge of the events of that day, the heroic efforts of first responders and the U.S. military response.May be used as a standalone mini-lesson or as part of your own curriculum. (Designed for 7th-10th grades)
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Autumn / Fall Migration – Informational Text is a 5 page resource that will give students valuable information about the migration of many types of animals from around the world that migrate every Autumn.
Information in the text includes:
- What migration is
- What type of animals migrate (examples)
- Why animals migrate
- Which animal has the longest migration
- How animals find their way
After students read the one page of informational text, there are 3 additional student pages to answer questions (multiple choice, short answer and essay).
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 5
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This Science article teaches students facts about the monarch butterfly! This resource includes 2 pages of informational text and 3 student activity pages.
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This resource on the famous national landmark, the Lincoln Memorial has been designed for use in 3rd-4th grade classrooms. It is cross-curricular so it can be used as a Social Studies / History lesson(s) or an English / Language Arts lesson(s)!
(See description below for additional information)
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This Biology / Anatomy resource includes 2 informational text passages. The first details how the digestive system works and the second informs students of the most common health / medical issues that can occur within the system.
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Take your students on a journey through the historic and rugged Northeast Region! This 12-page resource provides a comprehensive “textbook-style” experience without the bulk of a heavy manual. From the Appalachian Mountains to the bustling Atlantic harbors, students will explore the unique identity of this vital corner of the United States.
This resource is designed to be a “one-stop shop” for regional literacy, covering Land and Water, Climate, Products and Natural Resources, Landmarks, Culture, and Food.
🧠 The “How” and “Why” (Educational Benefits)
Why choose this informational text set? It’s built on proven instructional strategies:
- Activates Prior Knowledge: The Anticipation Activity primes the brain for learning, helping students make connections between what they think they know and the new facts they are about to discover. 💡
- Targeted Comprehension: By breaking the text into specific categories (like Climate or Culture), students learn how to scan for information and master the art of non-fiction reading. 📖
- Critical Thinking: The category-specific questions require students to synthesize the text rather than just skimming for a single word.
- Skill Reinforcement: The “State Name Unscramble” provides a fun, low-stakes way to reinforce spelling and geographical recognition of the Northeast states. 🧩
🛠️ Ways to Use This in Your Classroom
- The Foundation of a Unit: Use the informational text as your primary reading material for a week-long deep dive into the Northeast.
- Guided Reading Groups: Break into small groups, assign each group one category (like “Landmarks” or “Food”) to read and present back to the class. If homeschooling, this can be done as a family. 🏫
- Create an Independent Research Station: Place the worksheets in a center or folder for students to complete at their own pace.
- Easy Plans: With clear text, structured questions, and included answer keys, this is the perfect “grab-and-go” resource. 🍎
📝 What’s Inside This 12-Page Resource:
- Textbook-Style Informational Text: High-quality content covering all major regional pillars.
- Anticipation Activity: Get those gears turning before the reading begins!
- Comprehensive Student Worksheets: Detailed questions for every category.
- State Name Unscramble: A fun challenge to wrap up the unit.
- Full Answer Keys: For quick, easy grading. ✅
Pro Tip: For the ultimate hands-on experience, pair this resource with the US Geography – Northeast Scrapbooking Pages! Students can use the facts they learn here to create their own beautiful regional journals.
🚀 Ready to Explore the Northeast?
Give your students a clear, structured, and engaging way to master U.S. Geography.Add the Regions of the U.S. – Northeast Region to your curriculum today and start the adventure!
⭐ This product is included in a $$$ SAVING BUNDLE: Regions of the U.S.A. | Geography Bundle
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This resource, Child Labor – Industrial Revolution Informational Text, will introduce your students to how the Industrial Revolution led to children working in factories and the conditions they endured.
After students read the information, their comprehension and understanding will be assessed through 8 multiple choice questions and 2 short essay questions.
One essay question will ask students to compare and contrast a factory child’s life (of the 1800s) to a life of a child today. The other is an opinion piece on what they believe is appropriate (and not appropriate) work for children. They will also be asked to make a chart of this information.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.1
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Help students develop their reading comprehension skills as they gain knowledge about the planets within our solar system with this informational article and assessment questions. This has been written for 5th-6th grade classrooms. The assessment includes 11 multiple choice questions, 1 opinion, short answer question and asks students to draw the planets in relation to the sun. Answer Key provided.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.5
Grade level: Sixth Grade
Automated Readability Index: 5.5
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This informational text resource centers around the life of 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and created for 3rd-4th grades. It begins with his early life in Kentucky and progresses through his life touching on his family, his career as a lawyer, his presidency and finally his death by the hands of John Wilkes Booth. This is a cross-curricular resource and may be used for both Social Studies/History and Language Arts!
Automated Readability Index: 3
Grade level: 8-9 yrs. old (Third and Fourth graders) -
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This informational resource on Abraham Lincoln is designed to give 5th – 7th graders practice reading and comprehending content area text. There are two pages of text which will cover Lincoln’s life beginning in Kentucky and progresses through his life touching on his family, his career as a lawyer, his election in 1860 and finally his death by the hands of John Wilkes Booth. After reading both the text and two charts (quick facts and fun facts), students will complete a comprehension worksheet. Finally, there is a fun postcard writing activity asking them to write to President Lincoln.
