Paired Passages Activity: Informational Writing 8th & 9th Grade YouTube Fame

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Paired passages are a perfect opportunity to include informative writing! This Informational Writing GOOGLE CLASSROOM READY Paired Text Set will keep your students interested in reading and answering questions. Not only does it cover interesting topics (All About Famous YouTubers and How to Become YouTube Famous), but it also has Common-Core aligned questions and writing prompts to go with it.

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Paired passages are a perfect opportunity to include informative writing! This Informational Writing GOOGLE CLASSROOM READY Paired Text Set will keep your students interested in reading and answering questions. Not only does it cover interesting topics (All About Famous YouTubers and How to Become YouTube Famous), but it also has Common-Core aligned questions and writing prompts to go with it.

Product Includes:

  • 2 Passages
  • Teacher Guide
  • Question Breakdown
  • Question Sets
    • Context Clues
    • Evidence Based Questions
      • 3 Multiple Choice
      • 1 Multiple Selection
      • 1 Short Constructed Response
      • 1 Extended Writing Response
  • Digital GOOGLE Version of Activity
  • Printable Version of Activity (Color & Black and White)
  • Graphic Organizer for Extended Response
  • Informational Writer’s Checklist
  • Answer Keys
  • 7 Point Writing Rubric

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Standards

The following standards are addressed with this resource.

Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language of a court opinion differs from that of a newspaper).
Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or chapter).
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grades 9–10 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence, paragraph, or text; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.