Learn Zillion: Use Text Structure to Organize and Comprehend New Information

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,...

To demonstrate their understanding of a main idea and of text structures, learners read six paragraphs, draft a sentence explaining the main idea of the passage, create a title for the passage, and form a graphic organizer that...

Here's a great idea for your Parent/Family Night—host a Reader's Theater! Everything you need to organize the night, as well as a K-3 and a 4-7 script, is provided in the packet. 

Explore plot structure by analyzing text samples with writers. They define terms such as problem and solution, cause and effect, and story arc. They also identify the sequences used in modern stories by reading samples and determining...

In this lesson, you will learn how to understand an author's purpose by thinking about why the author chose a particular text structure. [2:32]

Expository text can be challenging to young readers because of the unfamiliar concepts and vocabulary it presents. Discover ways to help your students analyze expository text structures and pull apart the text to uncover the main idea...

In this lesson, you will understand the elements of a biography by looking specifically at the text features within the article. [4:11]

In this lesson, you will learn how to use paragraphs to organize ideas by introducing headings. [5:09]

In this lesson, you will learn to find evidence for your answers by using text features and clue words. [5:08]

Students explore the patterns of text structure to anticipate the kind of information that a reading might present. The lesson examines some of the components of reading writing and using nonfiction.