How to Teach Informational Text Reading Strategy Lessons for Middle School
The Common Core informational reading standards for middle school are arguably some of the most important reading standards to focus on in a school year. Here are the nine informational standards in a nutshell:
We have created a bundle in our Teachers Pay Teachers store that is an essential resource for anyone teaching students in grades 6-8 to navigate informational text. These lessons were made to directly teach each standard individually, but also to build upon the ideas of each standard. Often times, teachers and students will start with ascertaining the main idea in a text before finding key text evidence. There is a reason why the Common Core informational standards begin with text evidence. In order to even begin to find the main idea of a text, readers have to find important details first.
Our lessons for each informational reading standard walks you through each informational text reading standard, aligns each standard to research-based strategies, and explicitly shows you how to introduce and model those strategies in your classroom. Each lesson is filled with the hallmarks of any good lesson: an anticipatory set, direct instruction, guided practice, assessment, and a reflection. Additionally, each lesson provides different graphic organizers and curated suggested text sets that match well with practicing the reading standard and pairs with the graphic organizers. This indispensable reading bundle helps middle school English teachers to successfully teach the standard expectations of the Common Core informational text standards.
The bundle also includes two extra lessons we made: doodle notes for informational reading and grading rubrics for each informational reading standard. Once you are done teaching these reading standards, you really should check out this post and our informational writing unit.
Happy teaching!