Teaching Informational Text: But What About the Others? Retrieved from Creative Commons 2020, December 6. The more I learn at Franciscan University, the more I have become a little bit (or a big bit?) of a pain in the behind to traditional teaching administration and the teachers themselves. Why? Take teaching informational text. Teachers know to concentrate on activating prior knowledge, identifying text structure (description, sequence, problem and solution, cause and effect, compare and contrast – in that order including signal words and use of graphic organizers), learning to read text features like charts and graphs, determining fact from opinion, identifying author’s intent and/or purpose, and naming important details and summarizing. My problem with this is the reliance on textbook/paper and pencil first, and then, they include (maybe) an additional activity. I say, rely on the additional activities, and include a couple textbook/pa...