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...
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...
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.
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.
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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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Quizlet

Quizlet: Text Structure (7Th Grade) Learn

For Students 7th Standards
Type the term matching the definitions of five different text structures including description, problem/solution, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and sequence.
Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Text Structures Definitions Match Game

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This interactive game of "Match" assesses students' knowledge of text structure definitions. Students will match the correct definition of a text structure to its corresponding definition.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 6th Grade Text Structure: Match

For Students 6th Standards
In this interactive game, students match the types of text structure to their descriptions.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 4th Grade Voc. Text Structure: Match

For Students 4th Standards
In this learning game, students match the term with the description of the types of text structures and patterns of organization.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Match

For Students 5th Standards
In this interactive game, students match the terms for the types of text structure to the correct descriptions.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Text Structure: Flashcards

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: An Introduction to Analytical Text Structures

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Many students are used to writing narratives - stories, description, even poetry, but have little experience with analytical writing. This article is an introduction to six analytical text structures, useful across content areas. See...
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.
Handout
Other

Lexiconic.net: Elements of Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains how to approach an analysis of a poem. It discusses assumptions people may have, the importance of reading it closely before analyzing it, looking at the stanza structure, the type of poem, the sound patterns,...
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: How to Read and Analyze an Essay (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
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Education.com

Education.com: Rl.4.5 Worksheets: Explain Major Differences Between Poems, Drama

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 8 worksheets that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard RL.4.5: Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to...
PPT
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Identifying Eukaryotic Animal Cell Organelles

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a tutorial slideshow showing the internal structure of an animal eukaryotic cell. Each slide has excellent labeled drawings accompanied by descriptive text explaining the function of each part.
Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: Female Reproductive System

For Students 9th - 10th
The parts of the female reproductive system and how they function are explained, as well as problems that can develop. An interactive diagram shows the internal structure, accompanied by descriptive text.
Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: Male Reproductive System

For Students 9th - 10th
The parts of the male reproductive system and how they function are explained, as well as problems that can develop. An interactive diagram shows the internal structure, accompanied by descriptive text.
eBook
Other

Netlib: 4.3 Quantum Chromodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
An online textbook containing an introduction to quantum chromodynamics (QCD). This is a proposed theory about what causes quarks and gluons to form hadrons. Article contains a description of lattice QCD, an approximation to QCD that is...