Analyzing text

Free resource for any grade!! Check it out… Prompts for developing your students’ higher order thinking skills…analyzing and synthesizing fiction & nonfiction texts. Perfect …

Text Analysis anchor - Complexity moves from Evidence (Right There) to Easy Conclusions (Low-Hanging Fruit) to Inference to Interpretation.

Teaching your students how to analyze text can be easy with tips from ROOM 213. She's got some close reading bookmarks to share too!

An Upper Elementary Collaborative blog written by 13 teachers. Includes teaching ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5.

Asking text-dependent questions is heavily routed in the Common Core/PA Core standards. A first step to having students analyze text is training them to look down (text) and not up (teacher) for th…

Informational text structures are the organizational patterns all writers must learn. Most people read and write for informational purposes, so...

Teaching students how to annotate text can be an intimidating task. Likewise, for our students, annotating text can be equally as daunting, especially if they don’t have a process of their own that works or steps to follow. However, teaching text annotation can be a simple and straightforward task if you follow these five steps.

Think critically about media. Questions about a cereal. Google apps.

By analyzing the language, tone, and audience of a text through these worksheets, students learn to identify the author's intended purpose.

When it comes to correcting grammar in a piece of writing, it can be an arduous task for man or machine. While spellcheckers are a dime-a-dozen and work pretty swimmingly, grammar ...

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The Common Core places new emphasis on the importance of reading and analyzing complex nonfiction and informational texts. This has many English teachers feeling like their literature is under attack, but students fall in love with stories. We don’t need to lose our stories in our transition to the Common Core. Each week, I do […]

This informational text journal is perfect for middle school students. It includes more than 30 informational text articles that are paired with comprehension questions, projects and activities. Students will read through the nonfiction text, respond to prompts and annotate the text. They'll strengthen their reading, writing and analyzing skills, too!

Passion blogging is a low-stakes chance for students to analyze texts of their choosing before they move on to complex literary texts.

Use this 4 step process to teach your middle school students how to analyze argumentative text before they begin to write argumentative essays!

Blogger Todd Finley looks at Standard 9 of the CCSS and, with his usual flair, suggests an entertaining range of complex nonverbal texts for students to analyze.

Learn how to use SOAPStone to analyze text for key themes, topics, and arguments. This comprehensive guide covers everything from setting up a project to interpreting

Andreion de Castro shared a motion design post where he plays with typography and movement. "POEMS: VOLUME II" is a collection of quotes and lyrics taken from a range of songs and movies inspired by Andreion’s taste in music and cinema. “My intent with the animations is to evoke emotions and feelings; Something we can perhaps resonate with.”