Informational Text (MS)

Focus Questions:

How do I identify genre?

How does recognizing and understanding genre characteristics, features, forms, and content help a reader interpret a text?

How does utilizing and reflecting on genre characteristics, features, forms, and content help a writer construct a text?

Related Search Terms

  • Text Structure

  • Informational Text

  • Organizational Patterns

  • Literary Nonfiction

  • Argumentative or Persuasive Writing

  • Procedural Writing

  • Nonfiction

Recommended Databases

NEED A PASSWORD?

Use Classlink>RGC_MC General Databases>database of choice for automated login, or login in to your school Google account and access the passwords here.

Britannica Middle School

Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and more.

SIRS Discoverer

is a multidisciplinary database specifically designed for middle school learners, researchers and educators covering curriculum areas including history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology.

Gale Middle School

Gale In Context: Middle School combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, as well as engaging reference, periodical, and multimedia content in language arts, social studies, and science. Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more.

NEED A PASSWORD?

Use Classlink>RGC_MC Content Specific Databases>database of choice for automated login, or login in to your school Google account and access the passwords here.

Additional Resources of Interest


Destiny Discover

eBooks

Use Classlink>RGC_MC General Databases (Gale Ebooks) or RGC_MC Content Specific Databases (National Geographic Kids)>database of choice for automated login, or login in to your school Google account and access the passwords here. NOTE: Additional ebooks are available through SIRS Discoverer database as well.

RGC_MC General Databases > Gale EBooks for automated login, or login in to your school Google account and access the passwords here.

RGC_MC Content Specific Databases (National Geographic Kids)>National Geographic Kids for automated login, or login in to your school Google account and access the passwords here.

Digital Magazines (both current and past issues available in Classlink>RGC_MC Basics>Flipster)

NOTE: Let the User ID and Password automatically fill in, then click the Sign In button under it.

Wacky But True

This magazine for kids has all sorts of interesting facts and stories inside as well as heaps of unusual and wacky things that happen in this world, and it's all true. Designed for those reluctant readers, from 8 to 14 years old, English as a second language 'students' and for readers who need their information in short, manageable 'bites', Wacky is the perfect magazine.

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