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ELAR Instructional HUB
  • Home
  • Reading
    • Fiction
    • Drama
    • Informational Text
  • Writing & Grammar
  • Phonics
    • Phonological Awareness
    • Sound-Letter Relationships
      • Seasonal Phonics Activities
    • Six Syllable Types
    • Spelling
    • Vocabulary
  • Book Lists
  • Monthly Newsletter
  • More
    • Home
    • Reading
      • Fiction
      • Drama
      • Informational Text
    • Writing & Grammar
    • Phonics
      • Phonological Awareness
      • Sound-Letter Relationships
        • Seasonal Phonics Activities
      • Six Syllable Types
      • Spelling
      • Vocabulary
    • Book Lists
    • Monthly Newsletter

K-5 Book Lists

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Multi-Genres

Created by Tara Salisbury-Region 15

Informational Resources

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Informational Text

  • Informational text written in order to:

      • explain or clarify information

  • Examples of informational text:

      • articles

      • essays

      • written instructions

      • procedural text

      • newspapers

Informational Activities

  • FQR--Fact, Question, Response

  • Article:  UpFront- The Five Kinds of Nonfiction

written by Melissa Stewart

  • Website: Melissa Stewart: 5 Kinds of Nonfiction (activities)

  • Nonfiction retelling activity

  • Informational Text Features Folder Activity

Text Features

Text Structures

  • Cause and Effect:  relationship of actions or events resulting in an effect

  • Description: identifying & explaining, characteristics, features, attributes

  • Problem and Solution:  within the story, a chapter, or a section

  • Sequential Order:  identify and describe items or events in a sequential order

  • Compare and Contrast (4th):  between two or more events or concepts

  • Logical Order (5th): used in argumentative text to organize a claim in a specific sequence that makes sense to support the argument.

  • Order of Importance (5th): author indicates the ideas in a story from most important to least important & vise-versa

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