Build strong reading comprehension skills for 1st graders with close reading, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities. Downloadable home-school connection activities are included to extend learning at home.

Support your 1st graders in close reading practice that supports Common Core methodology. Each unit pairs leveled text sets and provides vocabulary, oral discussion, and writing activities. Downloadable home-school connection activities are included.

"10 units + bonus unit; 5 text structures; Content & academic vocabulary, text analysis, close reading; Leveled text: science, social studies, biography, how-to; Text-based writing prompts"--Page 1 of cover.

Increasingly, research supports the importance of teaching children to read and write informational text, but few resources show us how to do it well. This book fills that gap. The authors explain why it's important to weave informational text into the primary curriculum. From there, they provide a framework for organizing your time and space, and classroom-tested strategies for incorporating informational text into reading, writing, and the content areas. For use with Grades K-3.

This book has been replaced by Close Reading of Informational Sources, Second Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3945-1.

After reading brief nonfiction passages about science, geography, or history topics, students answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions to build seven essential comprehension skills.

"Simple, lyrical words and bright, acrylic double-page pictures convey the astonishing facts about the Loggerhead sea turtle. . . . A powerful nature story for a young audience." —Booklist Far, far out at sea lives one of the world’s most mysterious creatures, the Loggerhead turtle. For thirty years she swims the oceans, wandering thousands of miles as she searches for food. Then, one summer night, she lands on a beach to lay her eggs—the very same beach where she herself was born. Nicola Davies’s lyrical text offers fascinating information about the journey of the tiny, endangered Loggerhead, while charming paintings by Jane Chapman vividly illustrate one turtle’s odyssey.

Student books are ideal for informational text practice in the classroom or as homework! Each student book provides content-area articles with embedded nonfiction text structures and activities that correspond to the teachers edition.

Reading: Informational Text Learning Stations is perfect for center activities, whole class instruction, or individual assignments. Topics includes organizational text structure, bias and point of view, citing evidence and more! The Learning Stations series increases student achievement and provides opportunities for inquiry with a variety of learning stations. Aligned to Common Core State Standards, each of the activities included also support Listening, Speaking, and Media/Technology standards. Make learning fun today with Learning Stations!

"17 topics: social studies, science and health, math, technology and the arts ; 3 reading selections on the same topic at 3 levels ; Comprehension questions are open-ended ; Writing prompts ; Visual literacy pages with photos."--Cover