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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Texts Fact Sheets

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Six printable fact sheets on how to understand and recognize different types of text including descriptive, informative, instructive, and persuasive.
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
How can you tell if a text is descriptive, informative, instructional or persuasive? This BBC Skillswise tutorial teaches you how with a factsheet, worksheet, quiz, and game.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Shifts in Perspective in Informational & Persuasive Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will read informational texts and identify varying perspectives in different arguments on the same topic. You will also analyze the reasoning and the...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Text Structure: Match

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this interactive game, students match the types of text structure to their definitions.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Literary Text That Develops Interesting Characters

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
A learning module that teaches students how to write an literary text with good characterization in four lessons: Introduction, Two Types of Characterization and Two Types of Characters, Choosing Your Characters, and Your Turn.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Is Logically Organized

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to write an organized expository text in five lessons: Introduction, The Type of Burger: The Controlling Idea, Toppings: The...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Allusions to Mythological, Classical, and Traditional Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on allusions to mythological, classical, and traditional texts and understanding what allusion is, its importance and use as a literary device, and how to...
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University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury; Cs Unplugged: Text Compression

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learn how compressed formats such as zip, gzip, or gif images are all based on a method called Ziv-Lempel coding, which turns out to be an interesting exercise in finding patterns in text.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Annotating Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on the reading strategy, annotating text. It defines the term and purpose, lists types of annotation, explains what to annotate, and suggests how readers develop their own method.
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TESL Journal

The Internet Tesl Journal: Reading Nonfiction Texts Fast

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Article lists a series of steps and tasks to make reading texts more efficient and clear. Written primarily for teachers of ESL students but tasks work for all students.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure: Test 3

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure: Reading Test 4

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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.
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Other

Educeri: Compare & Contrast the Overall Structure in Two or More Texts [Pdf]

For Students 5th Standards
A 10-page handout that explains clearly what text structure is and four different types, with accompanying examples. Different types are then presented along with two pieces of informational text and a modeled analysis, then two other...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Literary Text With an Engaging Story Line

For Students 8th
You will learn how to write an imaginative story that sustains reader interest and includes well-paced action, an engaging story line, and a believable setting.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Text Structure: Test

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive test features six matching and six multiple choice questions having to do with text structure and organizational patterns.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Introduction of Text Features

For Students K - 1st Standards
Dr. Murphy shares a comprehensive lesson plan to support students identifying various text features in informational texts. Students will mentally and physically engage in active learning to know how to navigate through different types...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Compare Narrative and Informational Texts: Practice 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to analyze differences in texts that use visual techniques to present narrative and informational content. You will also look at how information...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Conflict Types

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on types of conflict including the 3 main types: internal, external, and relational. It defines internal conflict, gives ways the character could be conflicted, and provides literary examples. It lists the 4...
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Read Works

Read Works: Magnetism Magnets: Types and Uses

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about magnets and their uses. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: File Types

For Students 9th - 10th
Computers store all files as binary data, long strings of 111s and 000s. Files represent all types of data: images, videos, documents, text files, spreadsheets, and applications. Files are stored as binary data.
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Genre Worksheets

For Teachers 3rd - 9th Standards
This learning module provides remediation with identifying genre of books and various texts. Practice with capitalizing nouns is provided with through worksheets, an online site, and a video tutorial. .
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TES Global

Blendspace: Types of Sentences

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites to use while learning about clauses and simple, compound, and complex sentences.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Text Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] 6 text structures - diary, fiction, nonfiction, biography, fairy tale, fable, mystery, fantasy, historical fiction
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Text Project

Text Project: Fyi for Kids: Vol. 2 Issue 4: Nesting Dolls [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 4th
This magazine article features nesting or matryoshka dolls. It explains that they are Folk Art which shows what is important to a group of people; it also provides a history of this type of doll dating back to Chinese artists about 1000...

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