Text Structure in Reading Lesson Plans & Worksheets

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: Narr. Text Structure: Picture the Character

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to illustrate and write characteristics of one of the characters. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]

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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.

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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Patterns of Organization: Spatial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This site provides an explanation of the spatial text structure. A diagram is provided to supplement the explanation, along with numerous transition words associated with arrangement in space.

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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.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Nar Text Structure: Story Sequence Organizer [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to sequence the story and finally create an illustrated storyboard. Materials are included.

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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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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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Florida Center for Reading Research

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

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and answer questions about the plot. Materials are included.

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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.

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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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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Morpheme Structures: Word Way [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards

A lesson plan in which students identify unknown words within a text, identify their parts and syllables, and work to determine the meaning of each word. Materials are included.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading Literature in Translation: Beowulf as a Case Study

For Teachers 9th - 10th

Contains plans for two lessons that examine different translations of "Beowulf" in order to study the nature of translation and examine the verse structure of the original text. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional...

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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.

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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Content Area Literacy: Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

The demands of comprehending scientific text are discipline specific and are best learned by supporting students in learning how to read a wide range of scientific genres. Besides text structures emphasizing cause and effect, sequencing...

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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...

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Research Paper Strategies

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards

Students use picture books in this lesson to find ideas for research paper topics and structures. Through the use of these resources, students are able to shape content in a much more meaningful way.

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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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Yale University

Avalon Project: Constitution of the United States: Article Ii

For Students 9th - 10th

Read the text of Article II of the Constitution, the four sections of which lay out the powers and duties of the executive branch of the federal government.

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