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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Worksheet 8: Smart Phones

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a PDF worksheet that provides six reading passages related to smart phones to help your students master text structure (patterns of organization) in informational text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds
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CPALMS

Cpalms: Structures and Skeletons

For Students 8th Standards
In this interactive learning module, students read informational text about dinosaurs and examine paragraph structure. They will learn about different types of text structure for informational paragraphs, identify the most effective...
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Read Works

Read Works: Passages: Sandra Day O'connor

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text Sandra Day O'Connor and a linked passage about Margaret Thatcher and then complete questions over the paired texts.RI.11-12.5 Evaluate text structure
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Text Structure Practice Part #1

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
After reading key words and phrases, determine the correct text structure in this Rags to Riches style game.
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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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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Just the Facts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which learners read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the topic and supporting details or facts. Materials are included.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Organization

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In writing and reading organization is the key to a reader's understanding. A great site for those of you who are looking for some further explanation of organization in writing. There is instruction, an example text, and specific...
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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Main Idea Worksheets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this learning module, students will learn how to identify the main ideas in individual pararaphs. Worksheets, PowerPoint lessons, and activities are provided to reinforce the concept of main idea. This module is designed to support...
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Savvy Story Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
During this instructional activity, students learn to actively engage in reading by becoming more familiar with the elements of a story. Students will be required to think at a higher level and will enhance their understanding of...
Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Organizing Information Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?
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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell a Story [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to map the story. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
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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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Craft and Structure: Determine the Meaning of Words and Phrases

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Learn how to use context clues to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word in a Social Studies passage.
Activity
Biology Corner

Biology Corner: Anatomy: Urinary System: Structure of the Nephron

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students read text and color leach labeled part of the nephron in the human kidney to understand the structure and function of the kidney. This is a ready-to-use teacher resource for biology review.
Article
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Previewing Texts in Content Classrooms

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Textbook previewing strategies focus not only on the structure of the text - such as the table of contents, index, chapter introductions, and so forth - but on a content overview, which focuses on the concepts and questions covered in...
Handout
Other

Critical reading.com: Drama

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discusses what the literary form of drama consists of in relation to its content, language, and structure.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Getting to Know Characters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this language development instructional activity using the books by Kevin Henkes English Language Learners learn vocabulary and language structures to express feelings, make text-to-self connections, and practice the reading strategy...