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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Patterns in Nature

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this video segment [3:25] from Cyberchase, a plant expert shows Bianca the patterns and symmetry found in nature.
Unit Plan
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...
Article
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Order of Importance

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides an explanation of the order of importance text structure. A diagram is provided to provide to supplement the explanation.
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...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This resource focuses on text structure by defining the types of organizational patterns and providing examples of each. These are followed by a list of links to practice activities on text structure and main idea, as well as some videos.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Grammar: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on sentence structure including the parts of a sentence, types of sentences, sentence patterns, run-on sentences, fragments, phrases and clauses, and much more. It also includes a video, practices, and a self-check.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Using a Pattern to Solve a Problem

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Patterns are prevalent in all levels of math. Common Core Standards expect students to be able to use structure - like that found in repeating the patterns of odd and even numbers or counting by 5s or 10s - to solve problems (MP7).
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Parallel Structure

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Parallel structure is a stylistic choice to make verbs in a sentence maintain a pattern.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Effective Introduction and Conclusion Sentence Structure Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: String Theory and the Hidden Structures of the Universe

For Students 9th - 10th
What is everything made of? Thus far, we can break everything in the universe down to a few very small elementary particles. But they fit into strange patterns that are not understood. Clifford Johnson describes these ideas, along with...
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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,...
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Compare Text Structures

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
This learning module focuses on comparing organizational patterns in informational texts including chronological order, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and problem and solutions. Click on each text structure for an explanation.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: 6th Grade Text Structure: Test

For Students 6th Standards
This assessment consists of five multiple-choice questions over the types of text structure and organizational patterns.
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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.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: 6th Grade Text Structure: Flashcards

For Students 6th Standards
This interactive set of flashcards helps students to learn the terms and definitions of the types of text structure
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Other

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: Writing Center: Structure and Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Indiana University of Pennsylvania Writing Center site provides resources to help students organize the content of their essays. Resources to help students with outlining content and incorporating transition words are provided.
Unit Plan
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,...
Primary
Iowa State University

Isu: Introduction to Persuasive Speaking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has detailed notes about persuasive speeches, and what it takes to effectively create and present a persuasive speech. Organized into the following sections -- "Introduction to Persuasive Speaking," "Patterns of Organization...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Argument Papers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of six screencast lessons explaining the process of argumentative writing. The first [4 min. 22 sec.] focuses on overall structure and purpose. The second [6 mins, 18 secs] explains how to state a claim. The third [6 min. 3...
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Cambridge Rindge & Latin School

Cambridge Rindge & Latin School: Making an Outline

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A tip sheet on how to create and outline for a research paper.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Virology

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the common strategy that viruses must adopt with this collection of video lectures from Columbia University in the City of New York. In twenty-six lectures, virus structure, reproductive cycle, and interaction of viruses with...
Article
Other

Responsive Classroom: Teaching Children How to Converse

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Conversation skills are important for academic and social learning at all grade levels. This first-grade teacher teaches conversation skills very specifically, starting at the beginning of the year, and provides lots of structured...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Seeing Through Camouflage

For Students 4th - 8th
This interactive feature from the NOVA: "Leopards" Web site presents a wide variety of ways in which animals use coloration to their advantage.
Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Reptile Adaptations

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan site, students examine the changing traits that have enabled reptiles to live in their environments. Interesting information and activities about reptiles are found on this site.

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