Teaching Informational Reading Skills Through Everyday Life

Designed for ages ~8–12

This digital guide shows you how to teach informational reading skills through real life, not isolated lessons or worksheets.

Instead of separating reading from everyday experiences, you’ll learn how to use conversations, observations, and real world moments to help your child understand informational text with clarity and confidence.

This guide focuses on how to teach, not just what to assign. You’ll learn how to guide your child in noticing key ideas, organizing information, and making meaning from what they read and observe, all within everyday life.

Informational reading skills covered in this guide include:

• Main Idea & Supporting Details

• Sequencing / Sequence of Events

• Cause and Effect

• Drawing Conclusions

• Informational Text Structure

• Compare and Contrast

• Word Meaning in Context

• Author’s Purpose & Point of View

Each skill is taught through real life application, discussion, and intentional observation, helping comprehension grow naturally instead of through drill or busywork.

This guide models the Live the Lesson approach, strengthening reading skills through meaning, connection, and real understanding rather than rigid programs.

Format: Digital download
Style: Informational reading | Real-life learning | Parent-guided