Comparing Text Structures Teaching Resources :: 529

E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Compare and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This learning module provides an explanation of the compare and contrast text structure. An explanation of the compare and contrast text structure is provided, and the compare and contrast text structure is demonstrated in a video...

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Educeri: Compare & Contrast the Overall Structure in Two or More Texts [Pdf]

For Students 5th Standards

A 10-page handout that explains clearly what text structure is and four different types, with accompanying examples. Different types are then presented along with two pieces of informational text and a modeled analysis, then two other...

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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Sequence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This learning module provides an explanation of the text structure for sequence. An explanation of the text structure for a sequence is provided, and chronological order text structure is demonstrated in a video tutorial lesson [1:24]

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Compare Perspectives

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Learn about the difference between a firsthand and secondhand accounts in a text on this site.

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Connections Within Text

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Learn how information in a text can be connected through compare and contrast, cause and effect, and sequence.

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Analyze Multiple Accounts

For Students 4th - 6th Standards

Learn about the different perspectives that can be used in an informational text.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Researching Information: Comparing Electronic and Print Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

This lesson allows students to compare and contrast print text structure with that of an online site. Students work together and use worksheets in comprehending the informational text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.7 Conduct short research...

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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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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Rocky Rescue Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This lesson, based on the animated story "Rocky Rescue" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children notice compare and contrast text structure while listening to and reading informational texts. In the video, Molly uses a...

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Character [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included.[PDF]

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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Cause and Effect

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This learning module provides an explanation of the cause and effect text structure. An explanation of the cause and effect text structure is provided, and a video tutorial lesson [0:53] provides additional examples to supplement the...

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Other

Literary Devices: Ode Examples and Definition

For Students 9th - 10th

Explains what an ode is, the different types (Pindaric, Horatian, and irregular), and gives some modern examples. Discusses the significance of odes in the history of literature and gives examples with explanations. Three multiple-choice...

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University of Washington

University of Washington: Patterns of Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

In addition to defining and describing various patterns of text organization, this website provides outlines illustrating each pattern. RI.11-12.3 Text development

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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This site discusses the topic of patterns of organization of paragraphs. Links with video content and further explanations about the following patterns of organization topics are provided: sequence, spatial, cause and effect; order of...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Understand New Vocabulary Within Context (English 6 Reading)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

You will learn how to use context (e.g., cause and effect or compare and contrast organizational text structures) to determine or clarify the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Character Compare [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which young scholars read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to compare two characters. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Compare a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read two narrative texts and complete graphic organizers to compare and contrast the texts. Materials are included.

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Kim's Korner: Patterns of Organization

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

This resource from Kim's Korner for Teacher Talk defines various patterns of text organization and provides a brief essay example of each pattern.

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Organizing Your Paper

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Two slideshows and a screencast on organizational patterns used when writing essays and speeches. The first is a 20-slide presentation explaining the seven most common organizational patterns used in writing: time sequence, spatial,...

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Dylan Thomas v. Langston Hughes

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards

Students will be given poems by Dylan Thomas and Langston Hughes and will determine the differing structure, style, and content of each poem. Included are detailed plans, copies of the poems, and examples of student work.

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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Comparison and Contrast

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This Grammarly Handbook resource provides examples of paragraphs that are arranged by the comparison and contrast organizational structure.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Connections

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to describe a character or compare and contrast two characters from the story. Materials are included. [PDF]

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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Space Probes to the Planets

For Teachers 3rd - 8th

[Free Registration/Login Required] Various activities are found in this flipchart surrounding the theme of the book Space Probes to the Planets. It includes comparing/contrasting, vocabulary development, fact/opinion game, Activote...

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Venn Diagram [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read two literary texts then compare and contrast them by completing a Venn diagram. Materials are included.

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