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Help students explain a topic, support an opinion or respond to nonfiction in writing. Find informative prompts alongside reading-and-writing lessons that provide a text, questions and a starting point for a longer response.
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A genre-comparison packet teaching the distinguishing features of fiction versus nonfiction texts (e.g. real vs. not real, characters/setting vs. glossary/index, illustrations vs. photos/captions), paired with a sorting activity and writing prompts.
Provide a complete, ready-to-print middle-school unit teaching informative essay writing, built around 'Pixanotes' (a fill-in-the-blank Cornell-notes-style format) and a nonfiction writing prompt/text set.
A 114-page reproducible creative-writing book presenting an informal, personal-experience-based approach to teaching writing, with a large collection of open-ended writing topic activities.
Nonfiction animal-themed reading passages paired with a text-based writing prompt, used to practice the A.C.E. strategy (Answer, Cite evidence, Explain) for constructed responses.
Build reading comprehension and language-arts skills (inferencing, cause/effect, contractions, capitalization/punctuation) using a nonfiction story about primatologist Jane Goodall, paired with a companion YouTube video.
Space-themed nonfiction reading passages paired with text-based writing prompts, used to practice the A.C.E. strategy (Answer, Cite evidence, Explain) for constructed responses.
A high school history lesson on the 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, teaching students about the U.S. refusal to admit nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees before World War II as an early Holocaust-era event.
Vikings - This " Viking Literacy and Math Activity Packet " is no prep required - so the packet is great as printable worksheets for a history unit or extra work or sub plans or to enhance a literacy or math unit. Many of these activities are differentiated so there are options for kids at all levels between Grades 2 and 5. Please note that not all…
Gives ESL/EFL students a nonfiction reading passage about healthy eating habits, told through the experiences of individuals such as a college student (Sarah) changing her diet, paired with comprehension, vocabulary and true/false questions and follow-up writing prompts, to build reading comprehension and written English production.
A 50+ page no-prep space-themed literacy and math activity packet blending reading comprehension, writing, and math/counting activities for a science/space unit, aimed at Grades 1-3.
A Lorenz Educational Press collection of eight cross-curricular nonfiction reading passages with reproducible follow-up activities for grades 5-6, designed for emergency/substitute teaching situations or supplemental cross-curricular study, and correlated to National Education Standards.
ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing practice for secondary students, built around a nonfiction feature article about Canada (geography, history, cities, culture).
Black History themed nonfiction reading passages about notable historical figures, paired with text-based writing prompts, used to practice the A.C.E. strategy (Answer, Cite evidence, Explain) for constructed responses.
A baseball-themed cross-curricular unit combining reading comprehension, writing, and math practice for elementary students.
Gives ESL/EFL students a reading comprehension and writing practice worksheet built around a short nonfiction passage about Australia (geography and culture).
A 61-page no-prep, print-and-go summer packet of literacy activities (nonfiction passages, a narrative, poems) with reading-response worksheets, vocabulary, drawing, writing prompts, and puzzles; seller markets it as including math activities as well, though math content was not reached in the captured text.
A Lorenz Educational Press collection of eight cross-curricular nonfiction reading passages with reproducible follow-up activities and an answer key for grades 3-4, designed for emergency/substitute teaching situations or supplemental cross-curricular study, and correlated to National Education Standards.
This open animal-writing prompt asks students to choose an animal, name it and share facts about it. The directions also call for a complete ending, supporting a short informational response with a clear topic and conclusion.
Build Grade 1 reading comprehension skills across a full school year through 72 original fiction/nonfiction passages with comprehension questions, vocabulary activities, and writing prompts.
Build Grade 1 reading comprehension skills across a full school year through daily short fiction/nonfiction passages with vocabulary matching, comprehension questions, and a writing prompt.
Provide a large set of print-and-go expository (informational/how-to) writing prompts so students practice organizing and explaining factual information in writing.
Deliver a full-year (36-week) grade-3 reading comprehension program combining weekly fiction/nonfiction passages, vocabulary practice, comprehension questions, and an open-ended writing prompt.
Teach 6th-grade-level students about medieval Europe's economic history, specifically how specialization of labor and trade networks developed during the Middle Ages, through a nonfiction reading passage written at a 1000 Lexile level.
This includes two Articles "How do hurricanes form? A step-by-step guide" and "How Do Hurricanes Form?" plus a graph titled "Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale" .