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InfoPairs integrates standards-based
Grades 1–5
content-area topics into the
curriculum. The short-text formats
and lesson plans support teachers as they
encourage close reading, re-reading, and
synthesizing of information across complex
texts, resulting in deeper comprehension.
InfoPairs: Paired Nonfiction Articles for Cross-Text Reading
Increase emphasis on comparing, contrasting, analyzing, and synthesizing information
in and across complex text
Designed for explicit small group guided reading, InfoPairs encourages comparison and
synthesis of multiple nonfiction texts and ideas.
InfoPairs offers a dynamic and innovative set of paired, leveled nonfiction text cards and
lesson plans for the purpose of developing students’ abilities to apply a range of
comprehension strategies to close, careful readings of short-text passages. Each pair relates
to a specific curriculum theme as well as to each other.
Students apply and practice a range of comprehension strategies:
• Making Connections
• Answering and Generating Questions
• Making Inferences
• Recognizing Text Structures
• Determining Importance
• Synthesizing and Summarizing
InfoPairs provides:
• Short, challenging texts that elicit close reading and re-reading
• Modeled instructional conversations that support close analysis of more demanding text
• Modeled questioning that encourages students to probe word and sentence meanings
and development of ideas.
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Component Overview
Each InfoPairs grade-level program includes:
Guidebook for
Instruction
Sturdy Storage Box
with tab organizers
28 Nonfiction Text Cards
Evenly divided between science and social studies
topics (14 pairs in 6-packs, total of 168 cards)
14 Lesson Plan Booklets
Drive discussion and provide explicit
nonfiction comprehension instruction
InfoPairs Program
Grade
Level
Lexile
ISBN
Price
Grade 1
levels E–M
n/a
69–476
$275.00
Grade 2
levels F–N
450L–770L
69–484
$275.00
Grade 3
levels J–R
500L–970L
69–492
$275.00
Grade 4
levels O–T 790L–1060L
69–506
$275.00
Grade 5
levels R–W 820L–1080L
69–514
$275.00
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Provides Expli
mprehension
Nonfiction Co
sing
Instruction U
ats
Short-text Form
Text Cards
28 Nonfiction Text Cards per Grade
InfoPairs leveled text cards provide students with
opportunities to closely read, reread, compare,
and synthesize information from paired complex
text sources.
Grade
Grade
Grade
Grade
Grade
1
2
3
4
5
Levels
Levels
Levels
Levels
Levels
E–M
F–N
J–R
O–T
R–W
n/a
450L-770L
500L-970L
790L-1060L
820L-1080L
InfoPairs Lexiles fall 100% into “stretch” Lexile
bands recommended by the Common Core State
Standards Initiative.
The short-text format allows teachers to provide
focused nonfiction comprehension instruction on curriculum-linked topics
and provides critical support as students practice applying different
comprehension strategies to access the deeper meaning of the texts.
• Topics/Themes linked to national science and social studies standards
• Range of text types and formats found in real life texts and on
standardized tests
• Supplements any core reading program
Grade 3 Social Studies
Comprehension Skills: Comprehension
Monitoring/Determining Importance/
Summarizing and Synthesizing
Theme: Government
Level: K
Grade 4 Science
Comprehension Skills: Summarizing
and Synthesizing/Making Inferences/
Making Connections
Theme: Weather
Level: S/T
Explanation
Explanation
Explanation
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Report
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Integrate standards-based science and social studies topics during the reading block.
Short nonfiction text-passage themes include:
Science Themes: Seasons, Weather,
Social Studies Themes: Homes, Families,
Senses, Plant Pollination, Matter and
Maps, Careers, Cultures, Transportation,
Energy, Density, Magnets, Habitats,
Holidays, Government, Native Americans,
Insects, Environment, Simple Machines,
Civil Rights, Inventors, Money and
Properties of Light, Mammals, Natural
Finance, Immigration, The American
Disasters, Minerals, Nutrition, Engineering,
Revolution, Colonial America, Animal
Birds, and more
Communities, Civics, Exploration
and more
Teach with paired, leveled
articles across a range of
nonfiction text types.
Text types included in each grade:
Report, procedure, explanation,
persuasive, transactional,
biography, memoir
Grade 5 Social Studies
Comprehension Skills:
Determining Importance/
Determining Importance/
Summarizing and Synthesizing
Theme: Exploration
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Text Cards
The InfoPairs Mini-Kits text cards and lesson plans integrate standards-based science
and social studies topics across a range of nonfiction text types.
If you are new to InfoPairs, here’s a terrific way to introduce the program. If you’re already
using the program, you can purchase additional paired text cards to continue supporting
students’ abilities to apply a range of comprehension strategies to close, careful readings of
short-text passages.
• 8 paired leveled text cards (in 6-packs) in either science or social studies
enable students to engage in close reading across texts and synthesize information
from two related sources to arrive at a deeper level of comprehension
• Paired articles represent a range of text types including report, procedure,
explanation, persuasive, transactional, biography, and memoir.
• Lesson plans provide explicit nonfiction comprehension instruction;
reproducibles allow students to apply comprehension strategies to text and access
deeper meaning
• Teacher Guidebook details methods of guided reading and comprehension
instruction
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Science Themes
Social Studies Themes
Weather, Seasons, Science Safety, Forces and
Motion, Life Cycles, Matter and Energy, Machines,
Inventors and Inventions, Magnetism, Erosion,
Space, Health and Nutrition, The Senses,
Structures, Ecosystems, and more
Shelters, Citizenship, Holidays, Celebrations,
Transportation, Landforms, Conservation, People
and Climate, Money, Regional Differences,
Human Migration, Urbanization, Technology, U.S.
Government, Colonization, Map Skills, and more
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Component Overview
Each InfoPairs Mini-Kit combined grade-level program includes:
Teacher
Guidebook
8 Lesson Plan
Booklets
16 Nonfiction “Short Text”
Articles for Cross-text Reading
Common Core Connection
InfoPairs Mini-Kits integrate Common
Core State Standards-based contentarea topics into the reading block.
The paired short-text selections and lesson
plans support teachers as they encourage close
readings, re-readings, comparison, and
synthesis of new information, resulting in
deeper understanding across texts.
Nonfiction Text Cards Levels
Grade 1
Levels E–M
n/a
Grade 2
Levels E–M
450L-770L
Grade 3
Levels L–R
500L-970L
Grade 4
Levels O–T
790L-1060L
Grade 5
Levels R–W
820L-1080L
InfoPairs Lexiles fall 100% into “stretch”
Lexile bands recommended by the Common
Core State Standards Initiative.
InfoPairs Mini-Kit Program
Grade 1 Mini-Kit Combined
64-648
$160.00
Grade 2 Mini-Kit Combined
64-655
$160.00
Grade 3 Mini-Kit Combined
64-662
$160.00
Grade 4 Mini-Kit Combined
64-679
$160.00
Grade 5 Mini-Kit Combined
64-686
$160.00
You can also purchase science or social studies
kits separately.
Grade 1 Science
64-495
$85.00
Grade 1 Social Studies
64-541
$85.00
Grade 2 Science
64-509
$85.00
Grade 2 Social Studies
64-55X
$85.00
Grade 3 Science
64-517
$85.00
Grade 3 Social Studies
64-568
$85.00
Grade 4 Science
64-525
$85.00
Grade 4 Social Studies
64-576
$85.00
Grade 5 Science
64-533
$85.00
Grade 5 Social Studies
64-584
$85.00
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Lesson Plans
InfoPairs lesson plans provide guidelines for explicit instruction and practice in
making text-to-text connections, summarizing and synthesizing ideas, and accessing
information from paired short texts.
Questioning is modeled for teachers to demonstrate how close attention to reading
supports students as they gather evidence and build knowledge. This encourages
comparison and synthesis of information from multiple sources. Sources are read and
understood individually; new understandings are integrated into what students have
learned from the partner source.
Lesson plans follow this instructional sequence:
Session 2
Session 1
Guided Reading
Guided Reading
Text Card B
Text Card A
• Introducing the Text
• Reading the Text
• Discussing the Text
Session 3
Guided Reading
Text Cards A & B
• Introducing the Text
• Reading the Text
• Discussing the Text
• Reflecting on the Text Cards
• Cross-Text Analysis
• Reflecting on the Learning
Additional instructional support includes:
Comprehension Tips and
Explicit Teaching Focus
Vocabulary Strategies and
Suggested Words for study
Models of Effective Teaching
Language and Instructional
Conversations; Tips for ELL
Common Core State Standards ask for close, sustained
reading of complex text. InfoPairs provides compact,
self-contained texts that students can read and re-read
deliberately and slowly as they are guided to probe and ponder
meanings of words, order of sentences, and development of ideas.
8
Blackline Master
provides additional
practice working
across texts—can
be a small-group
or independent
activity
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Teacher Guidebook
The Guidebook for Instruction includes:
• Program overview with component description
• Methods of guided reading
• Understanding comprehension
for reading across texts
• List and characteristics of the
various text types
• Complete list of InfoPairs
themes, titles, and focuses
InfoPairs Themes, Titles, Levels, Text Types,
and comprehension skills
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Theme/Topic
Level
Title
Text Type
Comprehension Skills
Determining importance,
Recognizing text structures,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
GRADE 1
1A
Science/Seasons
1B
2A
Social Studies/Families
2B
3A
Science/The Senses
3B
4A
Social Studies/Map Skills
4B
5A
Science/Weather
5B
6A
Social Studies/Homes
6B
7A
Science and Math/
Structures
7B
8A
Social Studies/Careers
8B
E
You‘re Getting Warmer!
Report
E
The Reasons for Seasons
Report
E
I Like Being an Only Child
Transactional
E
Twins
Transactional
F
How My Nose Knows
F
A Tasty Job
F
Map of My Neighborhood
Explanation
F
North, South, East and West
Explanation
G
Recipe for a Rainbow
Procedure
G
An Icy Summer Storm
Explanation
H
What Is a Tipi?
Report
H
Even the Three Pigs Didn’t Have One!
Report
H
Lines and Shapes
Explanation
H
Playground Polygons
Explanation
I
Horses on Patrol!
Explanation
I
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Procedure
Transactional
Report
Determining importance,
Making inferences, Making
connections
Visualizing, Making
connections, Making
connections
Answering and generating
questions, Summarizing
and synthesizing,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Comprehension monitoring, Making inferences,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Determining importance,
Making inferences, Making
connections
Making inferences,
Comprehension monitoring, Summarizing and
synthesizing
Answering and
generationing questions,
Recognizing text structures, Summarizing and
synthesizing
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9A
Theme/Topic
Science/Animal Homes
12B
13A
I
Soaring Serpents
Report
J
What Is an Album Quilt?
Report
J
The P.S. 22 News
Report
K
What About Whiskers?
K
Tasty Tongue Facts
L
Sojourner Truth
Biography
L
Ruby Bridges Day
Persuasive
L
Too Much Pollen!
Report
L
The Waggle Dance
Explanation
M
Four Facts About Old Cars
M
Hybrid Cars
F
How to Make Scrambled Eggs
Procedure
F
Sound Waves: How Dolphins Echolocate
Explanation
F
Sam’s Hockey Time Line
Memoir
F
Technology for Senior Citizens
Report
G
Let’s Look at Density
Procedure
G
Be a Density Detective
Procedure
G
An Iguana Goes to the Vet
Transactional
G
Jerome’s Dog-Walking Business
Transactional
H
The River Otter’s Home
Report
H
The Spotted Owl’s Forest
Report
I
Counting to 10 With Roman Numerals
Procedure
I
Hieroglyphics
Explanation
I
The 1962 Great Atlantic Storm
Report
I
Protecting Delaware Beaches
Report
J
A Leap Year Birthday
Transactional
J
A Chinese New Year
Transactional
Science/Conservation/
Environment
J
Electric Cars for Sale
Transactional
J
The Big Green Bus
Report
Social Studies/Communities
K
The Pioneers
Report
K
Do Cities Harm the Environment?
L
Firefly Facts
L
My Bug Journal
Social Studies/Cultures and
Their Crafts
Science/Animal Features
Social Studies/Historical
Figures
Science/Plant Pollination
13B
14A
Comprehension Skills
Making inferences, Making
inferences, Making
connections
Report
11B
12A
Text Type
Cave Dweller Tour
10B
11A
Title
I
9B
10A
Level
Social Studies/
Transportation
14B
Transactional
Report
Report
Transactional
Determining importance,
Making connections,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Recognizing text structures, Determining
importance, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Determining importance,
Visualizing, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Summarizing and
synthesizing, Summarizing
and synthesizing, Making
connections
Making inferences,
Determining importance,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
GRADE 2
1A
Science/Matter and Energy
1B
2A
Social Studies/How
Technology Changes Lives
2B
3A
Science/Density
3B
4A
Social Studies/Jobs
4B
5A
Science/Habitats
5B
6A
Social Studies/Letters and
Numbers
6B
7A
Science/The Changing
Earth
7B
8A
Social Studies/Calendars
8B
9A
9B
10A
10B
11A
Science/Insects
11B
10
Persuasive
Report
Transactional
Comprehension monitoring, Making inferences,
Making connections
Recognizing text structures, Determining
importance, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Summarizing and
synthesizing, Making
inferences, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Making inferences, Making
inferences, Making
connections
Visualizing, Making
inferences, Making
connections
Comprehension monitoring, Determining importance, Summarizing and
synthesizing
Determining importance,
Recognizing text structures, Summarizing and
synthesizing
Making connections,
Determining importance,
Making connections
Making inferences, Making
inferences, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Making inferences, Making
inferences, Making
connections
Making connections,
Making connections,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
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12A
Theme/Topic
Social Studies/The Bill of
Rights
12B
13A
Science/Magnets
13B
14A
Social Studies/Citizenship
14B
Level
Title
Text Type
L
The Right to Privacy
Explanation
L
Trial by Jury
Explanation
M
The Floating Train
Report
M
Finding Your Way
Procedure
N
Chardonnay Houlette: Washin’ for the
Weary
N
Craig Kielburger: Free the Children
Biography
J
The Four Stages of the Water Cycle
Explanation
J
From Egg to Frog to Egg Again!
Explanation
J
Habitats Aren’t Just for Animals!
Report
J
Greenpeace
Report
K
Cool Facts About A Hot Topic
Report
K
Solar Power is for Everyone!
Report
K
One Tree: Three Branches
Explanation
K
Who Makes the Laws?
Explanation
L
Meet Dr. Molina
Transactional
L
Black Coffee With Ants, Please!
Transactional
M
Labor Day in the United States
Report
M
Labour Day in Canada
Report
M
To Bottle or Not to Bottle
Persuasive
M
Plastic on Parade
Persuasive
N
Citizenship Q&A
Explanation
N
Journal of a New Citizen
N
Prism Power
Procedure
N
Fun House Science
Explanation
O
Inuit Tradition Lives On
O
The Mascot Issue: What Do You Think?
P
Simple Machines Can Get Complex
P
Wacky and Wonderful Rube Goldberg
Q
The Beauty of Barter
Persuasive
Q
Barter is More Trouble Than It’s Worth
Persuasive
Q
No Water? No Problem!
Explanation
Q
Animal Foolery
Explanation
Transactional
Comprehension Skills
Determining importance,
Answering and generating
questions, Making
connections
Recognizing text structures, Making inferences,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Determining importance,
Making inferences, Making
connections
GRADE 3
1A
Science/Cycles
1B
2A
Social Studies/Volunteering
2B
3A
Science/The Sun
3B
4A
Social Studies/
U.S. Government
4B
5A
5B
6A
Science/Important Living
Scientists
Social Studies/Holidays
6B
7A
Science/Environmental
Science
7B
8A
Social Studies/Citizenship
8B
9A
Science/Properties of Light
9B
10A
Social Studies/Native
Americans Today
10B
11A
Science/Simple Machines
11B
12A
Social Studies/Economics
12B
13A
Science/Adaptations
13B
Transactional
Transactional
Persuasive
Report
Transactional
Making inferences, Making
connections, Making
connections
Making inferences,
Answering and generating
questions, Making
connections
Comprehension monitoring, Determining importance, Making connections
Comprehension monitoring, Determining importance, Summarizing and
synthesizing
Comprehension monitoring, Determining importance, Making connections
Recognizing text structures, Answering and
generating questions,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Visualizing, Answering and
generating questions,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Recognizing text structures, Making connections,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Making connections,
Answering and generating
questions, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Making inferences,
Answering and generating
questions, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Determining importance,
Comprehension monitoring, Making connections
Answering and generating
questions, Determining
importance, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Summarizing and
synthesizing, Making
connections, Summarizing
and synthesizing
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14A
14B
Theme/Topic
Social Studies/Freedom
Fighters
Level
Title
R
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Memior
R
Dolores Huerta: Si, Se Puede!
Text Type
Comprehension Skills
Memoir
Making inferences, Making
inferences, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Biography
GRADE 4
1A
O/P
Masks: A Native American Tradition
Report
O/P
Preserving Pacific Northwest History
Through Totems
Report
O/P
SIT! Your Puppy’s First Command
Procedure
O/P
What Dogs Know
Procedure
O/P
Water Supply Emergency Plan for the City
of Preito, Nevada
Transactional
O/P
Smoking Out Forest Fires
Transactional
O/P
Young Ruby Bridges Steps Into History!
Report
O/P
Ruby Bridges: Reflecting Back on 50 Years
Memoir
O/P
Jan Matzeliger Shoes the Masses
O/P
Henry Ford: Getting America Rolling
Q/R
Settling the Mighty Misi Sipi
Q/R
Saving the Columbia River Salmon
Q/R
Five Precious Stones
Q/R
Ten Fun Facts About Fossils
Q/R
Circling Crater Rim Drive
Transactional
Q/R
The Hawaiian Hotspot
Transactional
Social Studies/The Regional
Industry
Q/R
The Big Cheese (Midwest)
Report
Q/R
A Reflection by Harriet Robinson, New
England Mill Girl (Northeast)
Memoir
Science/Nutrition
Q/R
Fuel for Your Growing Body
Q/R
Nutrition Facts? Debating Junk Food
S/T
Is There a Horse in Elise’s Future? Preparing
a Budget
Explanation
S/T
Credit Card Perils
Explanation
S/T
How a Meteorologist Forecasts the Weather
Explanation
S/T
Storm Chasers and Tornado Forecasters
Report
S/T
Graphing Immigration to America
Report
S/T
The Faces of New York City
Report
Social Studies/Native
Americans
1B
2A
Science/Mammals
2B
3A
Science/Natural Disasters
3B
4A
Social Studies/Civil Rights
4B
5A
Social Studies/Inventors
5B
6A
Science/Rivers
6B
7A
Science/Minerals
7B
8A
Social Studies and Science/
Volcanoes
8B
9A
9B
10A
10B
11A
Social Studies/Money &
Finance
11B
12A
Science/Weather
12B
13A
Social Studies/Immigration
13B
12
Biography
Explanation
Report
Transactional
Explanation
Report
Explanation
Transactional
Answering and generating
questions, Summarizing
and synthesizing,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Recognizing text structures, Determining
importance, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Comprehension monitoring, Comprehension
monitoring, Making
connections
Determining importance,
Making inferences,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Making inferences,
Comprehension monitoring, Summarizing and
synthesizing
Determining importance,
Making inferences,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Visualizing, Answering and
generating questions,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Answering and generating
questions, Summarizing
and synthesizing, Making
connections
Summarizing and
synthesizing, Determining
importance, Making
connections
Summarizing and
synthesizing, Visualizing,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Comprehension monitoring, Determining importance, Summarizing and
synthesizing
Summarizing and
synthesizing, Making
inferences, Making
connections
Summarizing and
synthesizing, Answering
and generating questions,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
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14A
Theme/Topic
Science/Alternative Energy
Sources
Level
Title
Text Type
Comprehension Skills
S/T
Wind Power!
Explanation
S/T
NIMBY or YIMBY?
Persuasive
R/S
What Was the Stamp Act?
Report
R/S
An Unruly Tea Party at Boston Harbor
Report
R/S
How to Survive an Avalanche
Procedure
R/S
Jimmy Chin: Wilderness Photographer
Biography
R/S
At Work in the Colonies
Report
R/S
Children at Work in Colonial America
Memoir
R/S
Building Hoover Dam: Facts for Young
Engineers
Explanation
R/S
Beavers: Nature’s Architects
Persuasive
R/S
The Man Who Loved Birds
Biography
R/S
Tracking Birds Through Banding
Social Studies/American
Expansion
T/U
The Trail Where They Cried
Report
T/U
Gold! The California Miracle That
Changed America
Report
Science/Animal
Communities
T/U
Jack and Jill (and Family): A Chimpanzee
Community
Report
T/U
Ant Colonies: E Pluribus Unum
T/U
The Unknown Earth: Exploring the Depths
of the Sea
Report
T/U
An International Science Project
Report
T/U
The Battle of Gettysburg (as reported in
The New York Times)
Transactional Comprehension monitoring,
T/U
The Journal of John Dooley, Confederate
Soldier
Transactional
T/U
The Hudson River: America’s First
Highway
Report
T/U
Road Trip! Route 66: America’s Favorite
Highway
Report
V/W
Why Pay Taxes? What Do I Get in Return?
Explanation
V/W
Get Out the Vote!
Persuasive
V/W
Adriana Ocampo: Following a Dream
Biography
V/W
Astronaut Kalpana Chawla
Biography
V/W
The Rock Cycle: Sediment Today, Igneous
Tomorrow
Explanation
V/W
Where Does Sand Come From?
Explanation
V/W
Journey Into the Unknown: The Lewis and
Clark Expedition
Report
V/W
The Four Voyages of Henry Hudson
Report
14B
Summarizing and
synthesizing, Summarizing
and synthesizing,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
GRADE 5
1A
Social Studies/Causes of the
Revolution
1B
2A
Science/Extreme Weather
2B
3A
Social Studies/Colonial
America
3B
4A
Science/Engineering
4B
5A
Science/Birds
5B
6A
6B
7A
7B
8A
Science/Scientific
Investigation
8B
9A
Social Studies/Civil War
9B
10A
Social Studies/
Transportation
10B
11A
Social Studies/Civics
11B
12A
Science/Women in Space
12B
13A
Science/Rocks
13B
14A
Social Studies/Exploration
14B
Explanation
Explanation
Answering and generating
questions, Summarizing and
synthesizing, Making
connections
Determining importance,
Answering and generating
questions, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Comprehension monitoring,
Determining importance,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Determining importance,
Making inferences, Making
connections
Making connections,
Recognizing text structures,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Making inferences, Making
connections, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Answering and generating
questions, Making connections, Summarizing and
synthesizing
Making inferences,
Summarizing and
synthesizing, Summarizing
and synthesizing
Visualizing, Synthesizing
and summarizing
Making inferences, Making
inferences, Making
connections
Comprehension monitoring,
Comprehension monitoring,
Summarizing and synthesizing
Summarizing and
synthesizing, Determining
importance, Making
connections
Making inferences,
Comprehension monitoring,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
Determining importance,
Determining importance,
Summarizing and
synthesizing
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InfoPairs Mini-Kits Themes, Titles, Levels,
Text Types, and Comprehension skills
Theme/Topic
#
GRADE 1
SCIENCE
1A
Tornado Warning
Explanation
E
Meet a New Cloud
Explanation
H
Grassland Buddies
H
Dog Graduation Day
Science Safety
J
Keeping Labs Safe for Animals
J
Keep Classroom Animals Safe
Animal Features
L
This Baby Has a Long Neck
L
Elephant Trunks are Cool!
Shelters
F
Two Homes From Long Ago
F
Country Homes, City Homes
Report
Citizenship
H
Safety Patrol Saves the Day
Report
H
Kids Who Help Kids Dance
Transactional
Interdependence
2B
3A
3B
4A
Text Type
E
Weather
1B
2A
Level Title
4B
Comprehension Skills
Making inferences, Summarizing and synthesizing,
Making connections
Report
Determining importance, Determining importance,
Transactional Summarizing and synthesizing
Report
Explanation
Determining importance, Making inferences,
Making connections
Transactional Making inferences, Determining importance,
Explanation Summarizing and synthesizing
SOCIAL STUDIES
1A
1B
2A
2B
3A
Homes
3B
4A
K
How to Make an Igloo
K
Floating Homes
Report
Persuasive
Report
M
A Thanksgiving with Corn and Spice
Memoir
M
A Thanksgiving Across the Border
Memoir
Forces and
Motion
E
Bumper Cars
E
George’s Giant Wheel
Animal and Plant
Life Cycles
H
A Bear’s Life
H
The Life Cycle of a Pumpkin
J
How to Make an Ice Castle
3B
Matter and
Energy
J
Life in an Igloo
4A
Soil or Rocks
Holidays
4B
Comprehension monitoring, Visualizing,
Summarizing and synthesizing
Answering and generating questions, Recognizing
text structure, Making connections
Comprehension monitoring, Determining importance,
Summarizing and synthesizing
Making inferences, Determining importance,
Summarizing and synthesizing
GRADE 2
SCIENCE
1A
1B
2A
2B
3A
4B
L
Digging for Fossils
L
What’s in a Grain of Sand?
F
Rules at School
F
A Bedtime Chat
J
Going to a Powwow
J
A Cherry Blossom Festival
Transactional Comprehension monitoring, Answering and generating
questions, Summarizing and synthesizing
Report
Transactional Answering and generating questions, Visualizing,
Explanation Summarizing and synthesizing
Procedure
Comprehension monitoring, Determining imporTransactional tance, Making connections
Report
Explanation
Making inferences, Determining importance,
Summarizing and synthesizing
SOCIAL STUDIES
1A
Rules
1B
2A
2B
3A
Ethnic or Cultural
Celebrations
Memoir
Making inferences, Making connections,
Transactional Summarizing and synthesizing
Transactional Answering and generating questions, Determining
importance, Making connections
Report
Transportation
Past and Present
K
The High Wheel Bicycle
3B
K
Bike-Friendly City
Persuasive
4A
Landforms
M
The Great Smoky Mountains
Explanation
M
A Trip to the Grand Canyon
4B
Report
Visualizing, Making inferences, Summarizing and
synthesizing
Making connections, Making inferences,
Transactional Summarizing and synthesizing
GRADE 3
SCIENCE
1A
L
Waves of Sound
Procedure
L
Sound Journey
Biography
L
Greeting From Flytrap Trail
2B
Plants and
Animals
L
A Wild Food Chain
3A
Simple Machines
O
The Catapult – An Ancient Machine
Explanation
O
Seesaws Rock!
Persuasive
Energy
1B
2A
3B
4A
Gravity
4B
14
Making inferences, Determining importance,
Making connections
Transactional Answering and generating questions, Making
connections, Summarizing and synthesizing
Transactional
O
Laws of Motion Can’t Be Broken!
Report
O
A Zero Gravity Dream Come True
Explanation
Comprehension monitoring, Visualizing, Making
connections
Making inferences, Determining importance,
Summarizing and synthesizing
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#
Theme/Topic
Level Title
Text Type
Comprehension Skills
SOCIAL STUDIES
1A
Forms of
Conservation
L
The Mangrove Project
Biography
L
Junk Recycled Into Jewelry
Biography
People and
Climates
M
A Visit to a Bedu Camp
2B
M
The Inuit of the Arctic
Explanation
3A
Cultures
M
Navajo Sand Painting
Procedure
M
Traditional Navajo Weaving
N
There’s a Reward for That!
N
Building a Nest Egg
1B
2A
3B
4A
4B
Earn, Spend,
Dave Money
Report
Report
Report
Procedure
Determining importance, Determining
importance, Making connections
Determining importance, Comprehension
monitoring, Summarizing and synthesizing
Summarizing and synthesizing, Answering and
generating questions, Summarizing and
synthesizing
Answering and generating questions,
Recognizing text structures, Making connections
GRADE 4
SCIENCE
1A
Weather
1B
2A
O
A Spooky October Snowstorm
Report
O
Meet the Meteorologist
Report
Inventors and
Inventions
P
Stephanie Kwoleck: Seeing Possibilities, Saving Lives
2B
P
Brought to You By … Nature
3A
Magnetism
Q
The South Pointer: An Early Compass
Explanation
Q
What’s the Biggest Magnet? Your Standing On It!
Explanation
3B
4A
The Moon
4B
R
The Moon’s Violent Past
R
Is a Lunar Colony in Your Future?
Making inferences, Determining importance, Summarizing and synthesizing
Biography
Making inferences, Comprehension
Transactional monitoring, Summarizing and synthesizing
Report
Persuasive
Answering and generating questions,
Determining importance, Summarizing and
synthesizing
Determining importance, Making inferences, Summarizing and synthesizing
SOCIAL STUDIES
1A
1B
2A
2B
3A
3B
4A
Regional
Differences
O/P
Pawpaw Days – An Appalachian Remembrance
O/P
California: Artichoke Capital of the U.S.A.
Humans
Altering the
Environment
Q/R
The Dust Bowl Journal of Ada Caroline Owens,
Goodwell, OK
Saving the Soil With Sustainable Farming
Q/R
Memoir
Procedure
Memoir
Explanation
Living With
Electricity
Q/R Special (Electrical) Delivery: The National Power Grid
Q/R
Living Off the Grid
Report
Human
Migration
Q/R
New York’s East Side Tenement Museum: An
Artifact of Immigrant Life
Important Clues in Human Migration
Report
4B
Q/R
Explanation
Visualizing, Summarizing and synthesizing,
Summarizing and synthesizing
Making inferences, Comprehension
monitoring, Summarizing and synthesizing
Summarizing and synthesizing,
Comprehension monitoring Summarizing and
synthesizing
Recognizing text structure, Determining
importance, Summarizing and synthesizing,
Explanation
GRADE 5
SCIENCE
1B
1B
Weathering and
Erosion
2A
Outer Space
2B
3A
3B
4A
4B
Health and
Nutrition
Changing
Ecostystems
R
How the Grand Canyon Formed
Explanation
R
Saving the Land
Explanation
T
Pete Theisinger – Mission to Mars
T
Search for Rocky Planets
T
Serving Up Health in the Cafeteria
T
Living Without Gluten
Biography
Report
Persuasive
Report
U
Protecting a Rare Habitat
U
Preserving Our Forests
S
Skyscrapers On the Rise
S
T
A High-Flying Job – My Memoir of Building The
Sears TowerSears Tower
Tapping and Pinching for Answers
T
The Man Who Changed the World
T
Call It...James Madison Elementary School
Persuasive
T
Two House Congress Is Born
Explanation
W
The Mystery at Roanoke
Explanation
W
Pocahontas: Living in Two Worlds
Summarizing and synthesizing, Comprehension
monitoring, Summarizing and synthesizing
Determining importance, Making inferences, Summarizing and synthesizing
Visualizing, recognizing text structure,
Summarizing and synthesizing
Explanation Determining importance, Making inferTransactional ences, Making connections
SOCIAL STUDIES
1A
Urbanization
1B
2A
Technology
2B
3A
3B
4A
Formation of the
United States
Government
Colonization
4B
Explanation
Memoir
Determining importance, Answering and
generating questions, Summarizing and
synthesizing
Transactional Making inferences, Comprehension
monitoring, Summarizing and synthesizing
Biography
Biography
Comprehension monitoring, Making
inferences, Summarizing and synthesizing
Answering and generating questions, Making
inferences, Summarizing and synthesizing
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