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Reading: Informational Text Standard 5 Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.

Comic Book Templates: An Entry Point into Nonfiction This Teaching Channel video demonstrates how to help your students analyze the structure of informational texts. (8 minutes) Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the interests and achievements of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. Self-Assessment Rubric - Close Reading of Informational Text This self-assessment reading rubric will help Grade 11 and 12 students assess their reading of informational text. The Declaration of Independence: "An Expression of the American Mind" This lesson plan is divided into two parts. Activity 1: The structure of the Declaration: introduction, main political/philosophical ideas, grievances, assertion of sovereignty. Activity 2: The ideological/political origins of the ideas in the Declaration. Using Informational Texts - Section One Text Selections based on Text Complexity (Grade Band 11-12) Using Informational Texts - Section Two Teacher & Student Editions - Learning Tasks and Cognitive Rigor (Grade Band 11-12)

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