Intended for Grade 8.
This Class Set Includes 30 Student Books, a reproducible Test Pack, and a Teacher's Edition.
Reading Informational Texts adds challenging nonfiction passages to your curriculum, helping you meet the Common Core State Standards.
Informational texts can be difficult to find and teach — even for seasoned teachers — but the annotated passages in Reading Informational Texts help teachers and students alike by revealing rhetorical techniques, explaining historical context, and clarifying logical arguments.
Your students get the information they need, and you save countless hours of prep time. Plus, Reading Informational Texts Level 8 contains the longest texts in the series, making it great for deep analyses.
The Teacher's Edition includes approximately 20 pages of additional front matter on teaching informational texts, including information on qualitative and quantitative measures of text complexity.
Texts in Level 8:
- Chief Tecumseh: Address to William Henry Harrison
- Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Excerpt from Chapter X
- Winston Churchill: "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat"
- NASA: "A Brief History of Animals in Space"
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