Informational Text and Prefixes

Did you know the Tootsie Roll is attributed to saving thousands of soldiers? Or that a girl name Sybil Ludington warned more people about the British than Paul Revere? These 7 strange, but true, stories will help your students grow their vocabulary and comprehension skills. My students love these passages when I use them in my needs based instruction (NBI) period. I have also use them as homework and extra credit.

This set includes everything you need to teach prefixes in context.

Seven original middle school texts

1. The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
2. What Happened to Edgar Allen Poe?
3. Sea Turtles and Straws
4. Christmas Truce of 1914

5. The Lost Colony of Roanoke
6. Operation Acoustic Kitty

7. The Sybil Ludington Story
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