Teaching Students to Read Informational Texts—Independently!

Model lessons and engaging activities help students apply research-based reading strategies to informational texts so that they can read and comprehend complex texts. Students will learn these key skills:

• finding key details
• determining main idea
• locating text evidence to support an answer
• using text features
• understanding text structure
• summarizing text
• asking and answering questions
• and much more!

Armed with these reading skills, students can successfully tackle complex informational texts and really become independent readers.