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Text Structure

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Text Structures

 

 

 

Text Structure PPT -

http://heniss.pbworks.com/w/file/104007381/understanding-text-structure-powerpoint.ppt

 

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/collateral_resources/pdf/r/reading_bestpractices_nonfiction_fiveTextStructures.pdf

 

http://schermerhorn.pbworks.com/w/page/112155892/Text%20Structure - Mrs. Schermerhorn's Class - Text Structure

 

 

 

Sample Text Structure Paragraphs

http://heniss.pbworks.com/w/file/114595417/Sample%20text%20structure%20paragraphs.docx

 

 

Outline

http://heniss.pbworks.com/w/file/114595417/Sample%20text%20structure%20paragraphs.docx

 

http://heniss.pbworks.com/w/file/114595417/Sample%20text%20structure%20paragraphs.docx

 

 

 

 

Text Structures 

 

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Description or List - includes details to help you picture or get to know a person, a place, a thing, or an idea

 

Cause and Effect - explains why something happened (cause) and what happened as a result (effect).

 

Problem and Solution - presents a problem and explains how it is solved. 

 

Compare and Contrast - presents the similarities and/or differences between two items, such as a pair of events, time periods, ideas, or places

 

Sequence of Events - describes events in the order in which they happened. This is also called chronological order.

 

https://www.quia.com/rr/869176.html - QUIA - Text Structure

 

NonFiction Text 

 

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/collateral_resources/pdf/r/reading_bestpractices_nonfiction_nonFictionTools.pdf

 

 

Text Structure

 

The term “text structure” refers to how information is organized in a passage. The structure of a text can change multiple times in a work and even within a paragraph. 

 

 

Cause and Effect:The results of something are explained.
Example: The dodo bird used to roam in large flocks across America. Interestingly, the dodo wasn’t startled by gun shot. Because of this, frontiersmen would kill entire flocks in one sitting. Unable to sustain these attacks, the dodo was hunted to extinction.

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Chronological: information in the passage is organized in order of time.
Example: Jack and Jill ran up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after.

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Compare and Contrast: two or more things are described. Their similarities and differences are discussed.
Example: Linux and Windows are both operating systems. Computers use them to run programs. Linux is totally free and open source, so users can improve or otherwise modify the source code. Windows is proprietary, so it costs money to use and users are prohibited from altering the source code.

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Order of Importance: information is expressed as a hierarchy or in priority.
Example: Here are the three worst things that you can do on a date. First, you could tell jokes that aren’t funny and laugh really hard to yourself. This will make you look bad. Worse though, you could offend your date. One bad “joke” may cause your date to lash out at you, hence ruining the engagement. But the worst thing that you can do is to appear slovenly. By not showering and properly grooming, you may repulse your date, and this is the worst thing that you can do.
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Problem and Solution: a problem is described and a response or solution is proposed or explained.
Example: thousand of people die each year in car accidents involving drugs or alcohol. Lives could be saved if our town adopts a free public taxi service. By providing such a service, we could prevent intoxicated drivers from endangering themselves or others.
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Sequence / Process Writing: information is organized in steps or a process is explained in the order in which it occurs.
Example:
Eating cereal is easy. First, get out your materials. Next, pour your cereal in the bowl, add milk, and enjoy.

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Spatial / Descriptive Writing: information is organized in order of space (top to bottom, left to right).
Example: when you walk into my bedroom there is a window facing you. To the right of that is a dresser and television and on the other side of the window is my bed.

 

Text Structure Worksheets

Identifying Text Structure 1: Read the passages. Identify the text structure. Write information from the passage into the appropriate graphic organizer. Graphic organizers are available at the top of the page. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 6-10
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Identifying Text Structure 2: Read the passages and put the information from each passage into an appropriate graphic organizer. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 6-10
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Identifying Text Structure 3 – read the following passages and determine the text structure. Then, put information from the text into the appropriate graphic organizer. Remember to focus on the main idea of each paragraph. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 6-10
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Identifying Text Structure 4 – read each passage and determine the text structure. Then, put information from the text into the appropriate graphic organizer. Remember to focus on the main idea of each paragraph. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 5-9
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Identifying Text Structure 5 – In this single-sided worksheet, students read the five passages and draw graphic organizers on a separate sheet of paper. I hope that your students enjoy these five tornado themed passages. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 5-9
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Text Structure Worksheet 6 - Another single-sided worksheet where students read five passages and determine the pattern of organization. Students write information from the passages into the appropriate graphic organizer on the backside or a separate sheet of paper. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 7-11
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Text Structure 7 | The Revolutionary War Worksheet – Students will read five nonfiction passages about the American War for Independence. Students will determine the structure of each passage and create visual representation of the text. They will include information from the passages on their graphic organizers. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 7-11
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Text Structure Worksheet 8 – Six passages related to smart phones to help your students master text structure. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 5-9
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Text Structure Worksheet 9 – Six more nonfiction passages to give students practice with identifying text structure. These passages are themed around cats. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 5-9
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Text Structure Worksheet 10 – Eleven nonfiction passages about fireworks. I think that this one is a little bit easier to read than some of the other ones. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 7-11
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Text Structure Worksheet 11 – Ten more text structure passages, this time related to computers. Students read the passages, identify the text structure, and represent the information using the appropriate graphic organizer. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 6-10
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Text Structure Worksheet 12 – Six passages about shoes to help your students practice and review their text structure skills. This worksheet is a little bit easier than some of the other ones. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 4-8
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Text Structure Worksheet 13 – Here is another text structure worksheet that’s a little bit on the easier side to help struggling readers and younger students. The questions are the same as the other text structure worksheets, but the passages contains fewer challenging vocabulary words. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 4-8
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Main Idea and Text Structure – Six nonfiction passages where students identify the main idea, represent the text structure, and come up with an appropriate title. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 7-11
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Main Idea and Text Structure 2 – Six more nonfiction passages where students identify and represent main ideas and text structure. This time the worksheet is themed around robots. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 6-10
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Main Idea and Text Structure 3 – Another single-sided worksheet with six nonfiction passages. Students determine the main idea and text structure of each passage and then come up with an appropriate title. This worksheet has an amnesia theme: each passage is related to amnesia. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 7-11
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Main Idea and Text Structure Worksheet 4 – More practice with main idea and text structure to keep the students sharp. This one is themed around cars and petro-culture. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 5-9
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Main Idea and Text Structure Worksheet 5 – Here are five exciting passages about cotton candy. Students read each passage, explain the main idea, create a graphic organizer representing the information in the text, and come up with a title representing the main idea of the passage. This assignment is a little bit easier than the other main ice and text structure activities. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 5-9
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Main Idea and Text Structure Worksheet 6 – This worksheet contains five nonfiction passages themed around bicycles. Students will almost feel like they are out riding a bike instead of doing school work, except that they will be doing school work. This is great practice for standardized tests. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 6-10
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Valentine’s Day Main Idea and Text Structure Review Worksheet – Your students will LOVE working through these six passages, expressing the main idea of each, titling them, and visually representing the text using graphic organizers. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 6-10
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Text Structure Activities

Text Structure Lesson: PowerPoint slide show about text structure including cause and effect, sequence, chronological, problem and solution, and compare and contrast with a ten question practice activity.
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Create a Text Structure Booklet – Create a booklet where each page includes a definition of the pattern of organization and an original example. If you decide to work with a partner, each definition must also include a picture.
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Text Structure Quiz – This quiz contains nine passages, each of which is about ice-cream, and six questions where students match definitions to terms. Each form contains the same questions, answers, and distractors. I just shuffled the order of the questions.
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Text Features

 

https://www.teachingmadepractical.com/text-features-slideshow/ - Text Features Slideshow

 

 

Sample Text Structure Paragraphs

 

 

Problem & Solution

Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing.  Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem.

 

Comparison & Contrast 

Chimpanzees and humans are alike in many ways.  A baby chimp laughs when its mother tickles it. After chimpanzees fight, they kiss and make up. When one chimpanzee comforts another, it gives it a hug or pat on the back. There are, of course, many ways that chimpanzees and humans are different. Chimpanzees are smaller and stronger than humans. An adult male chimpanzee stands three or four feet tall and weighs about 100 pounds. But a chimpanzee can lift more weight than a man who is six feet tall.

 

Cause and Effect

Chimps live in groups and like each other a lot, but sometimes they fight. Because they don’t want to stay angry at each other after a fight, they make up by holding a hand out to the other and kissing. They show they are sorry with pats and hugs.  Then the anger goes away.

 

Sequence

A chimpanzee’s body is made for climbing   and swinging in the trees. First, it uses its long arms to reach a branch. Next, with its flexible hands and feet, it grabs and hooks on to the branch.  Finally, it swings from that branch to another branch of tree.

 

 

Description

 

It is fun to read about chimpanzees.  All wild chimpanzees live in Africa.  They live mostly in thick rain forests and in woodlands.  There are two types, or species, of chimpanzees – the common chimpanzee and he bonobo, also known as the pygmy chimpanzee.

 

 

Text Structure Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kWGQ-_ipBY - Text Structure

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cytHen2SCeM - Text Structure

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSGX34Zf82c - Text Structures

 

 

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