Sequence text structure
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Choosing the right books to support your teaching can make all the difference in the world. The following list is a book of suggestions when it comes to teaching text structure. Here are some tips when it comes to selecting books/texts to teach text structure:
Tip #1: Choose books that you can also use to teach writing. Teaching students how to find the text structure in reading is also a skill that transfers over to writing. When writing an informational text/essay/report, we determine how we will organize our information as writers. Have this discussion with your students through the lens of writing. When we try to determine the text structure, we are analyzing how the author “built” the text.
When it comes to teaching writing, we can also use text structure to decide how to organize our writing. If you use writing prompts in your writing workshop, you might have prompts that require students to compare and contrast or explain the causes/effects. These are the perfect opportunity to make the connection between reading and writing.
Tip #2: Choose books that c
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Text Structure
Background
Text structure refers to how the information within a written text is organized. This strategy helps students understand that a text might present a main idea and details; a cause and then its effects; and/or different views of a topic. Teaching students to recognize common text structures can help students monitor their comprehension.
Benefits
Teachers can use this strategy with the whole class, small groups, or individually. Students learn to identify and analyze text structures which helps students navigate the various structures presented within nonfiction and fiction text. As a follow up, having students write paragraphs that follow common text structures helps students recognize these text structures when they are reading.
Create and Use the Strategy
To create the text structure strategy teachers should:
- Choose the assigned reading and introduce the text to the students.
- Introduce the idea that texts have organizational patters called text structures.
- Introduce the following common text structures (see the chart below
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Language Features and Text Structure of a Biography Recap
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