Teach learners how to interact with both fiction and non-fiction text with a packet of activities and worksheets. After looking over text structure and the difference in text features between different types of writing,...

An English language arts unit closely examines spelling, grammar, reading, and writing skills. Scholars practice spelling patterns and tricky words. A read-aloud details the War of 1812 and introduces adverbs, and a close reading looks...

Visit the Magic Treehouse and take your class on a trip through time with a reading of the children's book Mummies in the Morning. Using the story to spark an investigation into Egyptian culture, this literature unit engages...

Follow the format of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles with a journal-writing activity. Readers choose a character and examine the character's life and circumstances through brainstorming, research, and discussion before...

High schoolers select a theme-related essay topic from Night, by Elie Wiesel, or The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka, and develop an essay that relates the theme to modern-day personal experiences. The essay follows a preset rubric...

Learn about the characters of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting with a character biopoem. Readers fill in a poem format to detail the character traits of Winnie, Jesse, Miles, and Mae, and share their finished poems...

This resource focuses on text structure by defining the types of organizational patterns and providing examples of each. These are followed by a list of links to practice activities on text structure and main idea, as well as some videos.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will be taking a look at how authors of informational texts, such as expository texts, organize their writing and the effects that organization can have...

This interactive set of flashcards help students learn the types of text structure, organizational patterns, and signal words for each pattern of organization.

This interactive test features six matching and six multiple choice questions having to do with text structure and organizational patterns.

This interactive set of flashcards helps students to learn the terms and definitions for types of text structure, organizational patterns, and keywords and graphic organizers for the types of text structures.

This assessment consists of five multiple-choice questions over the types of text structure and organizational patterns.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use different organizational patterns as guides for summarizing and forming an overview of different kinds of expository text while distinguishing factual claims from...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] By using different organizational patterns as guides, learn how to make subtle inferences and draw complex conclusions while distinguishing factual claims.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to analyze literary nonfiction, especially speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text. The...

In this text structure reading test, students read passages and select the pattern of organization used; they sometimes have to explain their reasons using evidence from the text.

In this text structure test, students read passages and select the correct text structure; they are sometimes asked to explain how the evidence to prove their selections.

This interactive assessment consists of five multiple-choice questions over the types of text structure and patterns of organization.

In this learning game, students match the term with the description of the types of text structures and patterns of organization.

This set of interactive flashcards helps students learn the terms and definitions for the types of text structure and patterns of organization.

This interactive assessment consists of six multiple-choice questions over text structures and patterns of organization.

This interactive set of flashcards helps students learn the terms and types of text structures and patterns of organization.

This is an interactive test over text structure including patterns of organization, types of writing, and graphic organizers. It consists of nine matching and eight multiple-choice questions.

This is an interactive, 8-question, multiple choice quiz over text structure and patterns of organization.