Scholastic
Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare Contrast [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be use with students when they read an informational text. Using a Venn diagram to organize content, students will write important similarities and differences after reading an informational text and analyzing...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Patterns of Organization for Academic Texts
A list of six different ways to organize a text with links to more information for each.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Make Inferences in Informational/expository Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will be taking a look at how authors of informational texts, such as expository texts, organize their writing and the effects that organization can have...
Other
Teachers Network: A Trip to Baseball Hall of Fame (Writing a Persuasive Letter)
This lesson plan focuses on improving students' persuasive writing skills. Students reseach baseball and then write a persuasive essay to convince the baseball coach that a trip the Baseball Hall in Fame would be beneficial to the...
Read Works
Read Works: Scales
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how the human brain organized past memories. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: u.s. Presidents John Adams
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about John Adams, the second president of the United States. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Fdlrs: Thinking Maps: Examples From Brevard Public Schools
See examples of the use of the eight graphic organizers from Thinking Maps. These maps help students organize their learning and identify ways to reflect different kinds of text. The several examples from each grade K-6 show how to use...
Read Works
Read Works: Classify and Categorize 4th Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-activity unit on classifying and categorizing through which learners learn how to organize research into an outline, use text features to locate information, and write a research report. Lessons...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure: Reading Test 4
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.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Misleading Graphs and Statistics
Get independent practice working with misleading graphs and statistics. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Organization Appropriate to Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you how to write and organize an essay so that it addresses different purposes, different audiences, and different contexts.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Writing With Writers: Descriptive Writing
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Paragraphs
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will write simple, non-chronological reports from known information (e.g., from own experience or from existing text), using notes made to organize and present ideas. Students will learn to...