An eight-part learning module with links to websites, texts, videos, images, and charts to use while learning how to write descriptive texts.

Slideshow explores text structure and delves into cause and effect, compare/contrast, description, problem/solution, and more.

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

In this interactive game, students match the terms for the types of text structure to the correct descriptions.

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...

This virtual exhibition describes the stages in the construction of Sennacherib's Palace Without a Rival and the surrounding gardens, with quotes from Sennacherib accompanying the text. Click on highlighted words for pop-up definitions,...

For this lesson, Brooke Bessesen's picture book, Look Who Lives in the Desert!: Bouncing and Pouncing, Hiding and Gliding, Sleeping and Creeping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the...

In this lesson, Eileen Christelow's picture book, Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the...

In this lesson, Hooway for Wodney Watby, written by Helen Lester, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What",...

In this instructional activity, Hoops, written by Robert Burleigh, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What",...

In this lesson, Dr. Seuss' book, If I Ran the Zoo, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After reading the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the words "Who", "What", "When", and "Where" until...

View animations of each of the ASL alphabet letters, followed by a text based description of how each letter is formed.

Get the feel of running a newspaper by selecting articles and pictures. If you are interested in checking out real newspapers, there is a clickable list of online newspapers for younger readers.

Read each text description and determine if its purpose would be to entertain, inform, or persuade in this five question quiz.

A description of Fulton's steamboat and its influence on subsequent military warships. Interesting, anecdotal and well-written. Includes some biographical information. (Text is the actual radio transcript of a syndicated radio broadcast...