Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Digital Article & Activities - Tiny Houses
Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Digital Article & Activities - Tiny Houses: Bring nonfiction into your classroom with this comprehensive digital resource, designed to meet your informational text standards. Use the included Google slides to guide this high-interest nonfiction reading comprehension lesson where students will read an article about The Tiny House Movement which advocates for downsizing to smaller living spaces to promote financial freedom, environmental sustainability, and a simpler lifestyle. Students will then show their comprehension and analysis of the article with a ready-to-use digital response assignment, focusing on making connections, evaluating information, summarizing information, reading comprehension, and more. Also included is a fun and creative digital assignment where students design a floor plan for their own tiny house and develop a real estate listing to sell the house once it’s done. This nonfiction reading comprehension lesson has everything you need to help your students be stronger at reading and analyzing informational texts.
This is a digital resource and students complete all the work on the computer. This works well with distance learning, 1:1 classrooms, remote teaching, Google Classroom, or online education.
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Included in This Digital Tiny House Movement Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Article and Activities Resource:
➡️ Tiny House Movement Google Slides: Use this Google Slides presentation to guide you through every element of the lesson. From pre-reading discussion questions to activity prompts and answer keys, each slide is crafted to facilitate engaging classroom discussions. Additionally, the presentation includes a link to a related video and a video writing prompt, enabling students to make meaningful text-to-self connections.
➡️ Tiny House Movement Nonfiction Article: Engage your students in an original digital nonfiction article that explores The Tiny House Movement. This informative piece provides a foundation for in-depth discussions, reading comprehension, and critical analysis.
➡️ Tiny House Movement Digital Reading Response Assignment: Challenge students to analyze the text and show comprehension with this digital reading response assignment. Designed to meet informational text curriculum standards, this assignment encourages students to analyze and reflect on key concepts focusing on making connections, evaluating information, summarizing information, reading comprehension, and more. A detailed teacher answer key is provided for easy grading and review.
➡️ Tiny House For Sale and Floor Plan Digital Creative Response Assignment: Foster creativity and critical thinking skills with this engaging digital assignment. Students design a floor plan for their own tiny house and develop a real estate listing to sell the house once it’s done. Students will complete the tiny house floor plan by labeling all areas of the house (doors, windows, furniture, appliances etc). The real estate listing allows them to focus on the unique features, description, and ideal customer.
What Teachers Are Saying About This Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Article and Activities Resource:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This was great before having my students create tiny houses for a character from our most recent novel study. Great way to build background knowledge.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students really struggle with informational text. I love using these short non-fiction, high-interest articles to refine those skills. The creative activity following the article was also a big hit!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I used these informational texts in my engineering class when we discussed tiny houses as part of a project.
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