Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How to Read and Analyze an Essay (English Iii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson's activities, you will determine the purpose of description, narration, and exposition essays, analyze their literary devices, and examine text features. You...
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Text
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Snowy Town
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Johnny who takes his dog for a walk on a snowy day. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Haisln: Recommended Reading Lists
Librarians from a group of independent schools in Houston, TX have chosen hundreds of books covering grade levels from Pre-K through 12, and genres from non-fiction to poetry to fiction. Each entry lists title, author, publisher and...
Read Works
Read Works: The Sounds of Baseball
[Free Registration/Login Required] An descriptive text about the sounds a person would hear at a baseball game. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: The Motion of Baseball
[Free Registration/Login Required] A descriptive text about playing baseball. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
English Companion: Reading Expository Text
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.
![Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Structure Sort [Pdf] Lesson Plan](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/509100-0887334671733aad90589df4785fb1a5.jpg?1661786974 "Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Structure Sort [Pdf] Lesson Plan")
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Structure Sort [Pdf]
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.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Playing With Prepositions Through Poetry
Learners play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.
Read Works
Read Works: A Day in the Life of a Veterinary Technician
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a typical day at work for a veterinary technician. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Play Ball!
[Free Registration/Login Required] A descriptive essay about women playing baseball during World War II. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Lesson 1: Actions
In this resource, students will practice identifying and describing the actions of a character. Teachers will model these skills through the use of text and pictures from the story No, David! by David Shannon. Students will then draw a...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Identify and Analyze Text Structure
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.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Image to Narrative
This lesson, which can be adapted to fit with any picture you choose, works for students of all levels.
CommonLit
Common Lit: A Description of a City Shower
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...
University of Maryland
Early Americas Digital Archive: Brief Description of the Province of Carolina
The complete text of "Brief Description of the Province of Carolina" by Robert Horne.
University of Maryland
Early Americas Digital Archive: Pastorius's Description of Pennsylvania
The complete text of "Pastorius's description of Pennsylvania, 1700" by Francis Daniel Pastorius.
University of Maryland
Early Americas Digital Archive: Brief Description of the Province of Carolina
The complete text of "Brief Description of the Province of Carolina" by Robert Horne.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Text Structures: Definitions
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Compare/contrast Kindergarten Unit: Similarities/differences in Text
[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...
Read Works
Read Works: Character 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this three-lesson unit, students learn how to identify language within a text that describes a character, use evidence from a text to describe a character, and to use details from a text to identify...
Other
Ms. Jordan Reads: Teaching Sensory Language With Mentor Texts
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Colorful Desert
In this lesson plan, The Colorful Desert, written by Audrey Wood, is used as a mentor text for sentence fluency. The content focus of the lesson plan is about how sentences build through a "building on" book. Students will use sentence...
Read Works
Read Works: Forms of Art Landscape Paintings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a descriptive pieces for the artistic product of landscape paintings, their different purposes, and styles of design. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...