Informational Text: What's It All About? Author: Rita Maddox, Language Arts Consultant
This 59 slide Power Point outlines some of the most effective ways to approach informational text, including inferencing skills, outlining, graphic organizers, and reading strategies. It also includes statistics and helpful research.
This resource provides teacher insight into the world of informational text and how to have students approach it. Citing research (which order to teach text structures, how these strategies help students in science, etc.), this resource may double both as professional development as well as an idea generator for classroom activities. This is an excellent source to study before teaching informational texts.
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