Comprehension: Informational Text
Improve overall comprehension with an extensive collection of informational texts, which provide factual content on diverse topics to help students become well-informed, critical thinkers who understand complex text.
Why build students' comprehension skills with informational texts?
- Build real-world knowledge: Explore texts across all content areas to grow knowledge and vocabulary.
- Build critical thinking skills: Analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information in complex texts.
- Develop reading skills and strategies: Practice and apply reading skills and strategies such as identifying main ideas, summarizing, and making inferences to deepen comprehension.
Students who develop strong comprehension skills in informational texts perform better academically across various subjects, including social studies and science.
How can comprehension resources in informational texts supplement your instruction?
- Increase access to diverse content: Incorporate texts that cover a wide range of topics, and help students make connections across and beyond content areas.
- Build strategy and skill development: These resources provide opportunities to teach and practice strategies and skills to improve students' overall reading comprehension.
- Increase critical thinking: Resources such as Close Read Passages and Paired Books encourage students to think critically about information in a text and analyze different points of view.
- Differentiate instruction: Use informational texts and resources to tailor instruction and support all learners.
It is essential to teach students to read informational texts from a young age. Learning A-Z resources equip learners with the necessary tools through a variety of books, passages, and lessons that include:
- Texts to support building knowledge
- Texts for a variety of strategies and skills
- Exposure to text features and text structures
- Graphic organizers