Field guides, maps, calendars and photos. What do these items have in common? They are informational texts! In the new PBS KIDS series, Molly of Denali, adventurous 10-year-old Molly Mabray lives in ...

With the Common Core Standards came an increased focus on reading informational texts, starting with kindergarten. But integrating informational texts isn’t as simple as having students read a couple ...

In an English/language arts classroom in Iowa, 10th graders are analyzing the rhetoric in books about computer geeks, fast food, teenage marketing, the working poor, chocolate-making, and ...

Remedial Reading and Language Arts – Students will recognize informational text structures and differentiate authors’ purposes. Students will apply this knowledge by writing five different kinds of ...