Description
Hoping to increase student engagement during your reading block this year? These highly engaging non-fiction passages will be an absolute hit with your students! The 10 weird and interesting informational texts will keep students engaged while practicing close reading skills. Students will do a close read with each passage, answer 10 multiple choice questions, then use graphic organizers to show what they’ve learned.
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These engaging reading comprehension passages, questions, and graphic organizers are the perfect way to connect literacy to science. These high-interest passages will absolutely increase student engagement, while also increasing student achievement!
10 Informational Text Topics:
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What is earwax?
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Why do we bruise?
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A sprain or a broken bone?
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Why do we poop?
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What are boogers?
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Why do we throw up?
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What are scabs and blisters?
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Why do our baby teeth fall out?
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Why do we burp?
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Why does mold grow?
Weird and Interesting Non-Fiction Texts and Activities BUNDLE Includes:
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10 Non-Fiction Texts
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10 Multiple Choice Questions for Every Text
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Teacher Tips
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Questions to Ask Students
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Close Reading Steps on a Bookmark
Version with “Annotate the Text” and Version with “Mark the Text”
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How to Mark the Text Bookmark
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How to Annotate the Text Bookmark
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Answer Keys
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7 Graphic Organizers:
1. Main Ideas with Text Evidence
2. Ideas with Text Evidence
3. Central Ideas with Details
4. Main Idea with Details, Main Idea, Details, Conclusion
5. KWL
6. Overview: Topic, Author’s Purpose, Key Vocabulary, Most Important Thing,
I wonder, Important Facts, Illustration
7. Context Clues (3 versions: 3 words, 4 words, 5 words)
Spark a love of science with these high-interest reading passages. A great way to meet multiple standards with one activity.
Ideas for Use:
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Whole Group Instruction
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Partner Practice
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Guided Reading Groups
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Substitute Plans
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Send Home to Practice
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ELA Work Stations or Centers
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Assessment
Close Reading: A reading strategy that is used to comprehend and analyze a text closely. Students will typically read the text at least twice for comprehension, details, analysis, and deep questioning of the text’s purpose and meaning.
Steps for Close Reading:
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Read the Text
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Mark Up the Text or Annotate the Text
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Read the Text Again
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Define Unknown Words
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Read the Text Again
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Respond to Reading
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