Incorporate informational text activities and reading into your ELA high school curriculum!
Aligns to Common Core State Standards
Nonfiction High School is designed to help your students comprehend the world of nonfiction reading. The six chapters cover Humor, Appreciating Nature, Independence, Hope, Military, and Famous Quotes. Each chapter contains two nonfiction stories or speeches, with one worksheet for each story or speech. By using this workbook as your guide, incorporating nonfiction pieces becomes easier and more enjoyable for you and your students. Answer key and glossary of terms are included.
- James Thurber
- Jonathan Swift
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Nicholas Gage
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Elie Wiesel
- Jonathan Edwards
- President John F. Kennedy
- President Ronald Reagan
- President Abraham Lincoln
- Patrick Henry
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Winston Churchill
©2014, English. High school. Reproducible. 89 pages.
Book Download: PDF. Adobe® Reader® required to view PDF.
Print Book: Spiral-bound. 8 x 11 inches.
About the Author
Barbara Beam has been an English teacher for more than 20 years. She has taught all high school grades and levels from basic to AP, and SAT/ACT Prep to Creative Writing. In addition to coaching several different sports, including varsity basketball, Beam has also directed musicals. This vast array of experiences outside the classroom has helped shape her lesson plans and teaching as she incorporated drama, competition, and entertainment alongside classic literature and old-fashioned hard work. She has written five books and two musicals. Beam is currently serving as an administrator in North Carolina.
