Informational Text Lessons - Nonfiction Text Features, Reading Comprehension

This informational interactive read-aloud lesson plan bundle includes rigorous text dependent questions, differentiated graphic organizers, response to text writing activities, a craftivity, and detailed lesson plans. Each title's activities will help you meet several core standards while maintaining your tradition of reading aloud for pleasure and to learn information. You will guide students to use evidence from the text to deepen their understanding about each topic and respond in meaningful ways.

Each titles's lesson plans will guide you through 3-5 daily interactive reading lessons. Each day, students will interact with the book for a different purpose and then complete a corresponding activity.

To teach these lessons you will need the books

Polar Bears, Laura Marsh

Wolves, Laura Marsh

Penguins!, Anne Schreiber

Pumpkin Circle, by George Levenson

Bats, by Elizabeth Carney

Spinning Spiders, by Melvin Berger

Weather, by Kristin Baird Rattini

Bees, by Laura Marsh

Seed to Plant, by Kristin Baird Rattini

Halloween, by Laura Marsh

Koalas, by Laura Marsh

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Download our Scope and Sequence to see how we have aligned each of our 1-2 read-aloud lessons with the CCSS informational text standards.

This informational text bundle goes perfect with our January Literature Read-Alouds. Combine both bundles to meet ALL 1st and 2nd grade Reading Informational Text and Reading Literature Standards.

Do you love reading aloud to your primary students? We do too! It is one of our favorite times of the day. Here's what our buyers say:

"I love these book studies, they add such a variety of skills to our reading lessons."

"This bundle is awesome! My class loves nonfiction and this will be perfect for after Christmas break!"

"The students love learning about these animals. They learned a lot of new information."

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