Description
These TWO informational texts and subsequent questions are perfect for secondary students. Engage high school language arts students with nonfiction that deals directly with their lives: these two pieces are about school suspensions and school segregation.
Overview of this informational text activity for high school:
√ TWO nonfiction articles.
√ EDITABLE activities: close reading options, writing prompts, extension activities, and questions for any informational text.
√ A complete lesson plan.
You will have student buy-in with the current topic of restorative justice in schools and segregation with US schools.
Goals of these informational text activities:
√ Responding to nonfiction is a lifelong skill. Students need to understand a writer’s purpose, the publisher and research’s bias, manipulative language, and more.
√ Almost every college professor asks students to judge and critique nonfiction writing as this is a lifelong skill. These nonfiction activities will allow students to practice responding in this manner.
√ Students become very involved with the discussion and reading of these timely topics!
Highlights of this informational text activity for high school:
→Detailed lesson plans for the articles and writing assignment. Includes the link to both articles (and extension activities). This informational text lesson plan is editable.
→Ten questions specific to the article and an alternative set of questions (for differentiation). All of these questions are editable.
→Instructional sheets for the students for crafting a mature nonfiction reading response. (See the thumbnails and preview for images.)
→A peer editing checklist and rubric.
Goals of this informational text activity:
√ To engage students. Both articles are controversial and deal with our students.
√ To provide an authentic writing opportunity. Since students can identify with the topics that deal with school, an argumentative response is the natural extension activity.
√ To teach text features. The questions (that you can use with any informational text) ask students to think deeply and analytically about how a writer constructs an argument.
The reading, discussion, and writing takes me a week of classes. I marked the standards I meet with this informational text activity.
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