Non-Fiction Text Breakdown: Socially Relevant Topics for Middle & High School

Do you have difficulty finding a reading passage that sparks the interest of your students? We’ve created a resource that is sure to motivate and engage your older students. This resource includes 5 texts, each with a socially relevant topic that our students can relate to.

Topics include:

• Discord
• TikTok
• YouTube
• Basketball
• Anime

This student friendly format will help breakdown the text and guide students to improve their comprehension of the text.

• Annotate and write notes in the annotation box to improve comprehension
• Make a connection to the text (text-to-text, text-to-self or text-to-world)
• Question the text
• Develop the main idea and include 3 details from the text
• Use strategies to define tier II vocabulary
• Respond to Bloom’s Taxonomy 6 levels of questioning: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate & Create