Reading Informational Texts, Book I: Nonfiction Passages and Exercises Based on the Common Core State Standards (Student Edition) - Softcover

Magedah Shabo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935468456 ISBN 13: 9781935468455

Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc., 2011

Synopsis

Note: This is a student edition and does not contain the breadth of material found in the teacher's editions, which are sold exclusively through the publisher.Take Rigorous, Standards-Based Nonfiction Study to a Higher LevelThe Reading Informational Texts series eliminates the need for hours of outside research and provides you with exactly what the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) require.
Each student workbook contains a variety of reading passages selected using CCSS-designated methods, accompanied by brief background materials, margin notes, short-answer and essay questions, and contextually defined vocabulary words.
Using the teacher's edition, available through the publisher, you can guide your students through a close reading of each work and fulfill the standards for reading: informational text.Passages include:

• Patrick Henry: Speech to the Second Virginia Convention
• Margaret Chase Smith: Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience
• Ernie Pyle: The Death of Captain Waskow
• Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Chapters I and II)
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy: 1961 Inaugural Address
• NASA: Light Emitting Diodes Bring Relief to Young Cancer Patients
• Justice Frank Murphy: Dissenting Opinion in the Case of Korematsu v. United States

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestwick House, Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1935468456
• ISBN 13: 9781935468455
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84