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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.
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Need help with doing a descriptive paper or personal narrative? Need a writing lesson plan? Meet Virginia Hamilton and follow her step-by-step guide to writing. When done, you are eligible for a certificate signed by this author.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Introducing Text Structures in Writing 5th Grade

For Teachers 5th Standards
This lesson engages students in learning about text structures. Graphic organizers are provided to assist students in planning writings that have the following text structures: problem and solution; sequence; cause and effect; and...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Similarities and Differences Between Two Text

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
In this lesson, through guided practice, the learners use two texts about Martin Luther King to compare the similarities and differences between those texts. Includes videos of the lesson in action, printable charts, and a graphic...
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Text Structures: Analyze Organizational Methods

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This slideshow focuses on text structures for informational texts including how the author's purpose helps determine the organizational pattern to use and how the reader can use clues to identify the text structure used. Five...
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Descriptive Writing

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
An eight-part learning module with links to websites, texts, videos, images, and charts to use while learning how to write descriptive texts.
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The English Teacher

The English Teacher: Description in Dracula

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Extracts from Bram Stoker's Dracula reveak his powers of description that help to establish a sense of "versimilitude" or of being "true to life." It is important to establish verisimilitude in the beginning pages of a novel as this...
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Structure Sort [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read short texts and sort them according to structure: cause and effect, problem and solution, question and answer, compare and contrast, description, and sequence. Materials are included.
Website
Other

English Companion: Reading Expository Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Taken from "Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techmiques," the information on this website provides advice on how to read, understand, analyze, and write expository texts.
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Steele's Sciences: New Descriptive Astronomy by Joel D. Steele

For Students 5th - 8th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Steele's Sciences: New Descriptive Astronomy by Joel D. Steele (c1884), an astronomy text for children.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: A Description of a City Shower

For Students 11th - 12th
A learning module that begins with "A Description of a City Shower" by Jonathan Swift, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through...
Graphic
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.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Text Structures

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A thirty-part learning module on text structures including description, sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and cause and effect. Lessons include links to pictures, story text, informational text, videos, charts,...
PPT
Other

Prezi: Text Structure

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Slideshow explores text structure and delves into cause and effect, compare/contrast, description, problem/solution, and more.
PPT
Other

Prezi: Nonfiction Text Structures

For Students 6th - 7th Standards
Slideshow examines the five most common text structures used by authors to organize nonfiction writing.
Unit Plan
Quizlet

Quizlet: Text Structures: Definitions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Text structure definitions are provided on this page. Students will read the definitions of different text structures and then learn the corresponding definitions. Students can listen to the definitions and words read aloud. Students can...
Graphic
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Text Structure Ppt

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
A slide show with sixteen slides with explanations and examples of different text structures including: cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, sequential, and description.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Compare/contrast Kindergarten Unit: Similarities/differences in Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson using the book Long Ago and Today by Rozanne Lanczak Williamsin in which students learn to recognize similarities and differences within a text. Ideas for teaching, guided practice, and...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sl.4.4: Orally Report on a Topic or Text

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 75 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to...
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Education.com

Education.com: Sl.4.4 Worksheets: Orally Report on a Topic or Text

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 2 worksheets and 6 lessons that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard SL.4.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an...
Primary
Other

Swathmore College: Edward Randolph's Description of King Philip's War

For Students 9th - 10th
The original text of the report written by Edward Randolph to King James II of England, who had sent him "to investigate the violations of the Crown's colonial laws".
Lesson Plan
Other

Ms. Jordan Reads: Teaching Sensory Language With Mentor Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson on sensory language revolves around the descriptive book "Where Butterflies Grow". Students will learn how sensory language connects to the five senses, learn a sensory language chant, understand the purpose of sensory...
Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Identify and Analyze Text Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn how to identify the text structures of chronological/sequence, cause/effect, problem/solution, compare/contrast, description, and directions by using a list of guiding questions.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Text Structure (7Th Grade) Test

For Students 7th Standards
Answer five multiple choice questions defining different text structures including description, problem/solution, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and sequence.

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