Intended for Grade 9.
This Class Set Includes 30 Student Books and 1 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.
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 Book I:
- Ernie Pyle: "The Death of Captain Waskow"
- Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Chapters I & II ("Childhood" and "The New Master and Mistress")
- Patrick Henry: Speech to the Second Virginia Convention
<li;">John Fitzgerald Kennedy: 1961 Inaugural Address - Margaret Chase Smith: Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience
- NASA: "Light Emitting Diodes Bring Relief to Young Cancer Patients"
- Justice Frank Murphy: Dissenting Opinion in the Case of Korematsu v. United States
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