Engage Students with Informational Texts
Student work with informational text doesn’t have to be rote or boring! Use these creative ideas to inspire activities in your classroom that engage students deeply with the informational text content they are reading.
Wixie is the perfect digital canvas for students to use to share their ideas about the information they are reading. Students can use Wixie to create engaging and valuable products that show what they think about information through a combination of text, images, and voice narration.
Interview with an Animal
Students interview animals to demonstrate knowledge of animal characteristics, diet, and more.
Lesson Plan: Animal Interview
5 Senses Poem
Have your primary learners respond to informational texts that are read to them through the creation of a 5 senses poem.
Biographical Timelines
Students conduct research about an important woman in history (or science, math, medicine, politics...) and share information about their life in a timeline.
Infographics
Students create an infographic to share knowledge and data about an issue or topic they are reading about.
Cycle Comics
Students can choose a scientific cycle such as pollination and illustrate it to build and demonstrate their understanding.
Trading Cards
Students research a person from history, or a character in a book they are reading, and summarize their findings in the form of a trading card.
Give students choice
Use this choice board to put students in charge of how they will demonstrate comprehension of an informational text.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Information Plaques
Thanks Mrs. Davies for teaching us how to use Wixie today! We are going to be making Information Plaques for our animal habitats! @AldrinEagles pic.twitter.com/yy1ipoCOgF
— Kathryn Wheeler (@mswheeler1st) March 23, 2022 -
Research Organizers
First grade researchers have been busy learning new information about a topic of choice. They used Wixie to help organize their facts. pic.twitter.com/22J6owfZNn
— Coates Elementary (@CoatesES) March 9, 2022 -
Animal Books
#Wixie is such an amazing tool for students and even teachers to tap into their artistic abilities. #NotAnArtist@StamatinaH @ExecSuptKWatts @UlanaKorovec #ResearchProjects pic.twitter.com/viI0Sn86kn
— Public School 131 (@ps131K15) June 16, 2022 -
Informational Books
First-graders @RobertHunterES are showing what they know about the animal they have researched - so easy to do with #Wixie @FlemRarSchools pic.twitter.com/MZcH0g8TbF
— Patricia Flavin (@patflavin1007) June 9, 2022 -
Timelines
3rd graders got creative turning their timelines into works of art using Wixie. #mbeisfamily #wixie@HumbleISD_MBE pic.twitter.com/rAeTScpG40
— Emily Arnold (@MsArnold_MBE) September 13, 2022 -
Presentations
Using WIXIE to share nonfiction writing! Highly recommend this for youn writers!! pic.twitter.com/K89DtINywy
— Dr. Misty Mukherjee (@KinderDenandDrM) June 8, 2020 -
Diagrams
Today @BethFisherIFT came by to help us make diagrams of our research animals using #Wixie! It was so fun to be real scientists and nonfiction authors! #nonfiction #diagram #researchanimal #LRelem @LittleRiverLCPS pic.twitter.com/IMHoKbfqwT
— ??????? ??????????? (@MissLizHarvey) October 28, 2021 -
Trading Cards
4th graders @VirginiaRunES shared their feature articles using trading cards #NewLAPPG #wixie pic.twitter.com/L107PzOyyQ
— Daisy Bokus (@DaisyBokus) February 13, 2018 -
Comics
4th graders @VirginiaRunES shared their feature articles using trading cards #NewLAPPG #wixie pic.twitter.com/L107PzOyyQ
— Daisy Bokus (@DaisyBokus) February 13, 2018 -
Infographics
Sharing our final informational writing and completing Wixie projects! These first graders are awesome authors! #AACPSAwesome @TheFarmAACPS pic.twitter.com/BgRCGdeucf
— Melissa Moreland (@MelissaMorela14) January 31, 2020 -
Posters
Look at these amazing Wixie posters created by first graders after researching a few online informational texts! We are learning more and more each day! @Tech4Learning @HoneygoElem @CharleneBehnke @MelissaBAdler pic.twitter.com/s8bmUioLNE
— Mrs. Gardner (@rgardner116) January 14, 2021 -
Informational Posters
In social studies, we have been researching social & environmental issues. My students created posters using #Wixie to display their research! @gbparkaacps @SS_betsy @aacpsoit @AACountySchools pic.twitter.com/2hTc5W4CSy
— Alex Stencil (@MissStencil3) May 27, 2020 -
Organizing Research
4th graders at @WindyHillElem are working hard on their country projects. This week, they are finishing their research and graphic organizers and getting ready to make their final video presentations. Excited for our around-the-world viewing party! @Tech4Learning #Wixie pic.twitter.com/fJrhqOoq8l
— Windy Hill Elementary Library (@WHESmedia) March 8, 2019 -
Compare Fiction and Nonfiction
#readaloudoftheday was More Bears! by #kennnesbitt After laughing our way through the story and discussing features of fiction and nonfiction books, 2nd graders used #wixie to illustrate examples of the two! #itsworthit #librarariesareworthit #worthreading #edtech pic.twitter.com/tYccdZ6l8C
— Danielle Brown (@wes_library) September 27, 2019 -
Create your own nonfiction texts
Using WIXIE to share nonfiction writing! Highly recommend this for youn writers!! pic.twitter.com/K89DtINywy
— Dr. Misty Mukherjee (@KinderDenandDrM) June 8, 2020 -
Adaptation Posters
Ms. Broadwater's class researched animals adaptations and created posters using #Wixie. #scestech #3rdgrade #textfeatures #WeAreSwans pic.twitter.com/AuuwQcNOmJ
— Mrs. Charnick (@CharnickSCES) January 23, 2018 -
Immigration Brochures
5th grade spent the last few days researching immigration and are using Wixie to create informational brochures to show what they learned. pic.twitter.com/qRvSPjaAeC
— Folger McKinsey Elem (@FolgerAACPS) November 3, 2016 -
Bat Books
Mrs. Tan�s 1st grade w/ Uptmor researched bats ??. Created book @Tech4Learning include facts, illustrations, voice recording @stmeshouston pic.twitter.com/QR7Mws8YYo
— Gerjuan A Gregory (@gerjuangregory) October 26, 2017 -
Habitat Presentations
K students use their research notes in order to create "Animal Habitat" Wixie projects! #ELA @BCPSODL @missyfanshaw pic.twitter.com/7lBV9Awvuo
— Terry Guth (@tcguth) March 9, 2015 -
Snake Posters
Using #Wixie to create a poster about the research 2nd grade did on snakes @MsNewmantx #SCESTech pic.twitter.com/HnLRe6jF7A
— Mrs. Charnick (@CharnickSCES) December 6, 2017 -
Famous People
2nd grade creating Famous African Americans WIXIE projects @DDance_BCPS @Terry_McVey pic.twitter.com/kP303c9VMv
— Hillcrest Elementary (@Hillcrest_BCPS) February 5, 2015
