Analyze Informational Text - Magazines as Mentor Texts Writing Mini Lesson

Teaching students how to analyze informational text can help strengthen their writing and publishing skills.

Students will use magazines as nonfiction mentor texts to notice and wonder what makes a cohesive, informative, and visually appealing publication.

This lesson is a great supplement to your elementary writing curriculum, middle school writing prompts, or GATE or elective classes.

It can be used as a stand alone lesson on how to analyze informational text using magazines as mentor texts, or it can be included as one step in a larger project of student-created magazine publishing.

***GROWING BUNDLE IS AVAILABLE in my shop if you would like the other lessons for student-created magazine publishing.***

This download includes:

• Lesson overview for teachers
• Teacher prep list
• Standards alignment guide (while this is based on writing lessons for 5th graders, the listed CCSS standards align with grades 4-8 writing, at varying levels of complexity)
• Student Template for analyzing informational text
• Discussion prompt guide for teachers, ranging from simple to complex
• Next steps guide for taking this lesson to the next level with student publishing
• Classroom example photos