Reading Informational Texts adds challenging nonfiction passages to your curriculum, helping you meet modern, rigorous standards.
Informational texts can be difficult to find and teach—even for seasoned teachers—but the annotated passages in Reading Informational Texts help both teachers and students by revealing rhetorical techniques, explaining historical context, and clarifying logical arguments. Students get the practice they need, and you'll save countless hours of preparation time.
Each book contains several informational texts drawn from multiple subject areas, including law, history, science, and politics. To help educators match passages to student needs, the Teacher’s Edition for each book includes qualitative and quantitative measures of text complexity.
Includes:- Chief Tecumseh's address to William Henry Harrison
- An Excerpt from Narrative of Frederick Douglass
- Churchill's "Blood, Soil, Sweat and Tears" speech
- NASA's "Brief History of Animals in Space