Are you looking for high-interest INFORMATIVE writing prompts in the form of passages? Since informative writing should include more than one type of source, these informative text articles are used to give students some (but not all) information for a prompt OR the teacher can use it as a sample essay for a prompt. These writing prompt passages give students a jump start to their research to help them form an effective informative essay. In the passages, you will find a variety of photos, maps, timelines, diagrams, tables, graphs, maps, charts, and political cartoons. PowerPoint and Google versions were added for distance learning, centers, and homeschool.