A module where students analyze how the author uses text structure to emphasize key points or explanations in order to achieve the purpose for writing or point of view.

In this learning module, students will learn and apply the concepts of author's style and syntax.

Lesson plan focusing on the importance of understanding how the news is a product with a specific scope, structure, slant and style at the forefront of its production.

Provides a number of questions that students can ask themselves about a literary passage when doing a "Close Reading" and following this with an organized piece of writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5

This guide is written for college students, but should be very useful for upper level high school students as well. The writer first describes fourteen steps to take in doing a close reading, then provides six pieces of advice on how to...

This resource not only explains how to analyze a text, but also, provides student examples of literary texts. W.9-10.9b Research/Argum, RI.11-12.5 Evaluate text structure

This lesson focuses on analyzing a short story including all of the elements of a short story such as setting, plot and structure, and characterization.

Details about Rhetoric on the SAT Reading Test. One definition of the word rhetoric is "the study of writing or speaking." Rhetoric questions on the Reading Test assess how well you understand the choices that authors make as they...

Follow this six-step method and you'll have a good understanding of what a good scientific research paper involves and how it is organized. There are plenty of samples for you to look at. This explanation is also very helpful for...

Designed to help students think about their reading and writing skills, this page offers three different ways to interpret and discuss texts.

Contains many points to consider when analyzing someone's arguments and evidence, such as the hidden assumptions, cultural assumptions, and testability. Each is explained in a short paragraph with a link to additional discussions on...

Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?

This eleven-part Blendspace is designed to be used while teaching students how to analyze cause and effect. Links include reference sheets, a SMART Notebook Lesson, posters, practice worksheets, and guided practice opportunities.

This site discusses the topic of patterns of organization of paragraphs. Links with video content and further explanations about the following patterns of organization topics are provided: sequence, spatial, cause and effect; order of...

Using the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, source material for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," lesson plan teaches young scholars to analyze the structure of a play's text in a way that will give them a clearer understanding of how to...

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]

Students explore the essential qualities of a leader and/or hero and the journey required for someone to become one. They consider how Anglo-Saxon and medieval writings have influenced the concept of modern-day heroes in literature....

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]

In this language development lesson using the books by Kevin Henkes English Language Learners learn vocabulary and language structures to express feelings, make text-to-self connections, and practice the reading strategy of analyzing...

After analyzing primary source documents, pictures, and artifacts, students will use the describe, analyze, and interpret method to compare and contrast a sketch of Tahoe City in 1865 to a photograph of modern day Tahoe City. Then...

This lesson explains how to identify key question words and phrases. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.