Informational Text Structures Graphic Organizers Worksheets Nonfiction Activity

Looking for a way to make teaching informational text structures both easy and fun? This unit has everything you need and includes print and digital versions to give you greater flexibility!!

You can easily scaffold learning by using the labeled teaching pages as whole-class ready-to-go lessons. Then give students one of the unlabeled passages with comprehension questions each day to reinforce the concepts. Perfect for paired practice or independent work. Next, add some task cards (32 of them) for a whole class game day, for centers, or as a reading partner activity.

Want some more reviews for your students? There is also a flipbook, graphic organizers, posters, writing activities, foldables, and more! So many materials make it easy to save some for a spiral review or even for test prep when you need it!

This resource includes: Print and Digital Versions

5 Teaching Passages with Comprehension Questions (labeled to teach)

Description: Bull Sharks

Order and Sequence: How Pluto Was Named

Compare and Contrast: House Cats and Bobcats

Cause and Effect: Plastic

Problem and Solution: Sea Turtles

5 Passages with Comprehension Questions (with no text structure labels)

Description: Mountain Gorillas

Order and Sequence: Sally Ride (the first American female astronaut)

Compare and Contrast: Starfish and Sand Dollars

Cause and Effect: Leatherback Turtles (endangered species)

Problem and Solution: The First Moon Mission

32 Task Cards

6 Posters

2 Anchor Charts

7 Graphic Organizers

6 Foldables (One for all the text structures and one for each of the 5 text structures)

Flipbook

Key Questions Handout

Mentor Text Book List

5 Writing Pages for Text Structure Paragraphs

Real-Life Examples of Text Structures Matching Page

Scavenger Hunt for Text Structures Record Sheet

Answer Keys

Teacher Notes PDF with LINKS

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Here are the units included in the Reading Bundle for 4th and 5th Grade!

Main Idea

Characters, Settings, and Events: Story Elements

Compare and Contrast

Elements of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

Text Evidence

Inferences Using Informational Text

Inferences Using Literature

Theme

Cause and Effect

Informational Text Structures

Why you'll love this resource:

• There are a variety of formats, including posters, teaching passages, a flipbook, independent passages, task cards, a mentor text list, graphic organizers, writing pages, and more!

• The digital version helps you go paperless and is great for the classroom or for homeschool!

• It includes teaching passages for each of the text structures to give you ready-to-use lesson plans!

• The flipbook has a page for each text structure, which is a great follow-up to the teaching pages!

• Each text structure has a passage for independent work, but the passage is not labeled, allowing students to identify the text structure on their own.

• The informational text structure posters are a great visual reference for your students and allow them to identify text structures of passages you read as a class, allowing you to spiral learning!

• The task cards are lots of fun and are a great review of text structure concepts!

• It may be used in a number of ways, from whole-class lessons to small groups, independent work, reading centers, exit slips, homework, whole-class games, test prep, and more!!!

Need 3rd Grade?

Informational Text Structures for 3rd Grade

If you're looking for more Informational Text Structures practice, this is one of the reading games for text structures. It may be used for centers, whole-class, or for one on one:

Informational Text Structures Sort

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