Informational+Texts+Activities

Informational Texts Activities

Tween Tribune 1. Visit the Tween Tribune website. www.tweentribune.com 2. Select three articles that interest you, and read for understanding. 3. Complete the 3-2-1 Strategy for ONE of your three articles by typing in the template, then printing when finished. If you prefer, you can print the sheet and hand write on it. 3-2-1 Strategy: 4. If there is still time remaining, read some more interesting articles!

Text Structures Activities As we learned in L.A., it's important for us to be able to recognize Patterns of Organization when reading informational texts. These activities will help provide practice with identifying and utilizing Patterns of Organization (also known as Text Structures) to help improve comprehension of informational texts.

1. Visit this website. http://home.roadrunner.com/~EXCELLENCE1/Text%20Structure%20Text%20Features.htm 2. Download and review the top two documents in this section: The "Text Structure Study Guide" and the "Text Structure Signal Questions & Signal Words Chart" 3. Work through the "Text Structure/Features Activities for Non-Fiction".