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TEACHER MATERIALS
Extend informational text practice in the classroom with our free, downloadable teacher resources. Find graphic organizers aligned to standards, lesson guides, content bundles and more below.
CONTENT BUNDLES
We’ve curated a collection of articles grouped by subject, unit or topic.
- ELA Content Bundles
- Social Studies Content Bundles
- Science Content Bundles
LESSON GUIDES
Our lesson plans and guides offer activities for targeting informational text skills across subject areas.
Informational Text Practice
- Targeted Standards Practice
- Key Ideas and Details
- Craft and Structure
- Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Building Literacy Across the Curriculum
- How to Build Reading Comprehension with The Juice
- Practical Lesson Ideas
- Sparking Productive & Thoughtful Discussion with The Juice
- Lesson Ideas for Using The Quote of the Day
Science and Social Studies
- Teaching Informational Texts in the Social Studies Classroom
- Celebrating Earth Day
Using Current Events in the Classroom
- 5 Ways to Incorporate Current Events
- A Guide to Pairing Current Events Articles with Novels
Celebrations and Monthly Themes
- Lesson Ideas for Native American Heritage Month
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
All of our graphic organizers can be used with any article in The Juice and designed to target specific reading skills. Find and download graphic organizers by informational text standard.
Click on the links under the standards to open up and download each graphic organizer.
Key Ideas and Details
RI.1 Anchor Standard: Key Ideas and Details – Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
RI.2 Anchor Standard: Key Ideas and Details – Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
RI.3 Anchor Standard: Key Ideas and Details – Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
Craft & Structure
RI.4 Anchor Standard: Craft and Structure – Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
RI.5 Anchor Standard: Craft and Structure– Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g, a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
RI.6 Anchor Standard: Craft and Structure– Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Integration of Knowledge and Skills
RI.7 Anchor Standard: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas– Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
RI.8 Anchor Standard: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas– Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning, as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
RI.9 Anchor Standard: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas– Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
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