• Practice for every day of the school year • Help students prepare for standardized testing

Think about who would need to know that information. Read the instructions at the top of the page 
aloud. Then have students read the ad. When students have finished, direct them to complete the skill 
and strategy practice activities. Review the answers together.
DAY
2
Remind students of the skill by saying: Knowing how to read nonfiction text features helps us read 
different types of texts. Point out the recipe on the page and ask: What would happen if nobody 
knew how to follow a recipe? (e.g., People would cook poorly. Food wouldn’t be very good.) Remind 
students of the 
Organization
strategy, which was taught during Week 3. Say: Different kinds of text 
are organized in different ways. How are recipes usually organized? (The ingredients are given 
first, and the instructions to make food are given second.) Read the instructions at the top of the 
page aloud. Then have students read the passage. When students have finished, direct them to 
complete the skill and strategy practice activities. Review the answers together.
DAY
3
Remind students that charts, diagrams, and maps are different kinds of visual information. Say: 
Visual information is like text because it can tell us important ideas. But visual information
is different from text because it uses pictures to help tell its ideas. Remind students of the 
Determine Important Information
strategy. Say: Just like with a text passage, different types of 
visual information have a main idea. It’s important to pay attention to the parts of the visual 
information that support the main idea of what the visual information is trying to tell us. Read 
the instructions at the top of the page aloud. Then direct students to read the passage and to study 
the chart. When students have finished, direct them to complete the skill and strategy practice 
activities. Review the answers together.