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Reading Informational Texts, Book I: Nonfiction Passages and Exercises Based on the Common Core State Standards (Student Edition)
Reading Informational Texts Book I Nonfiction Passages and Exercises Based on the Common Core State Standards - Student Edition Author:Magedah Shabo, Elizabeth Osborne Take Rigorous, Standards-Based Nonfiction Study to a Higher LevelReading Informational Texts eliminates the need for hours of outside research and provides you with exactly what the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) require: challenging selections that will give your students vital practice with nonfiction works.Each student workbook provides r... more »igorous, direct student instruction and contains a variety of reading passages, including both difficult-to-find and well known historical, legal, and scientific works, selected using the CCSS-designated methods. To help your students get the most out of what they are reading, each passage are is accompanied by brief background materials, helpful margin notes and questions, and contextually defined vocabulary words.Using this book, can guide your students through a close reading of each work, challenge them with short-answer and essay questions, and ultimately help them gain the skills necessary to read and understand any work of nonfiction.Passages included: * 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 StatesNote From Publisher: This is a student classroom edition recommended for 9th grade. Teacher's editions are available from the publisher but are only sold to teachers and schools.« less