Curated OER
Identifying Text Structure
Work on identifying text structure with this thorough worksheet. After studying a diagram depicting six different text structures (compare/contrast, spatial, chronological, problem and solution, cause and effect, and order of...
Curated OER
Text Structure Booklet
Middle schoolers work on comparing and contrasting different text structures with this project. First, they study an example of a sample page in a booklet, which they go on to use as a model. They complete a booklet with text structure,...
Mark Twain Media
Understanding Informational Text Features
Everything you need to know about informational text features can be found in this resource. Recognizing these types of text features and how they are used in text allows readers to better understand information. Teachers...
Curated OER
Identifying Text Structure #!
In this identifying graphic organizers and their texts worksheet, students observe chronological, compare & contrast, sequence, cause & effect, and problem & solution graphic organizers, read short passages, and match them....
Curated OER
Joining Sentences
Sentence combining meets multiple objectives for writers, and they are all available in this informational text exercise. Learners read a mixed-up excerpt about the history of chess, putting 15 sentences into logical order. Have a...
Curated OER
Text Structure 2
For this reading worksheet, students read different passages of text and fill out graphic organizers for each one. Students read 6 texts total.
Curated OER
The Buzz About Honey
What's the buzz these days? Learn some fun and interesting facts about honeybees with an informational reading passage, including the steps for successful pollination and honey creation.
Curated OER
Evidence for Evolution
In this evidence of evolution worksheet, students review notes given by referring to the Nelson Biology text, chapter 11/13. Students read the notes and the specified pages in the text.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Strategy 3: Using Graphic Organizers Implementation Guide
Whether or not you are new to using graphic organizers with informational or expository text, the materials in this guide will prove useful.
Curated OER
Punctuation Day
In this Punctuation Day worksheet, students complete activities such as reading a passage, phrase matching, fill in the blanks, choose the correct word, multiple choice, spelling, sequencing, scrambled sentences, asking questions,...
Louisiana Department of Education
How to Write a Memoir
Who are we and what shapes our identities? Seventh graders work to answer this question as they learn how to write a memoir. Full of non-print resources and supplemental texts that range from fiction to non-fiction, scholars write their...
Curated OER
Poetic Elements
Poetry is all about sound and rhythm. The sound of the words, the rhythm of the lines, and the emotional atmosphere created by these elements and the literary devices poets use, compress whole stories into a few stanzas. The specialized...
Curated OER
Recounts
In this language arts worksheet, students use the graphic organizer to review the concepts needed in order to write an individual account of a significant event.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Practice 1
This interactive learning exercise provides 10 questions: each includes a reading passage which students read and select the patterns of organization used in each passage. RI.11-12.3 Text development
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Worksheets
This site provides several assignments and graphic organizers related to identifying text structures. Analyzing the following types of text structures are provided: main idea and supporting details; cause and effect; chronological order;...
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Text Structures: Analyze Organizational Methods
This slideshow focuses on text structures for informational texts including how the author's purpose helps determine the organizational pattern to use and how the reader can use clues to identify the text structure used. Five...
Other
Sas: Exploring Ways Authors Use Text Structures to Convey Meaning
In this lesson, students will explore ways authors use text structures to convey meaning through cause and effect, sequencing, comparison, and more.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Structures
A thirty-part learning module on text structures including description, sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and cause and effect. Lessons include links to pictures, story text, informational text, videos, charts,...
Other
Prezi: Nonfiction Text Structures
Slideshow examines the five most common text structures used by authors to organize nonfiction writing.
Other
Prezi: Text Structure
Slideshow explores text structure and delves into cause and effect, compare/contrast, description, problem/solution, and more.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structure (7Th Grade) Test
Answer five multiple choice questions defining different text structures including description, problem/solution, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and sequence.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structure (7Th Grade) Learn
Type the term matching the definitions of five different text structures including description, problem/solution, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and sequence.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structure: Flashcards
This interactive set of flashcards focuses on learning the definitions of types of text structure such as chronological order, cause and effect, compare and contrast, question and answer, sequencing, problem and solution, and descriptive...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Sequence
This learning module provides an explanation of the text structure for sequence. An explanation of the text structure for a sequence is provided, and chronological order text structure is demonstrated in a video tutorial lesson [1:24]