Elementary, Explained · Season 1, Episode 6
Literary and Informational Text
Story elements, text structures, and the features that make informational text its own skill.
- Runtime
- 5:23
- Deep dive
- 10 pages
- Reading and doing
- 19 min
- Tested on
- 6 exams
The written deep dive
10 pages that go further than the video
The video gives you the distinction. This gives you the practice, the worked reasoning, and a version you can print and mark up.
- 5 minName the structure of five short passages from signal words
- 10 minEight practice questions with worked reasoning
- 4 minTurn three topics into themes that make a claim
About 19 minutes end to end
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10 pages, about 19 minutes of reading and doing. Free, and yours to print.
Where this shows up
Exams that test what this lesson covers
- ILTS 702 Elementary Education (K-6)
- Praxis 7002
- Praxis 5205
- NES Elementary Education
- MTTC Elementary Education
- CSET Multiple Subjects
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