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Text Structure: Features and Organization Unit PlanText Structure: Features and Organization Unit Plan
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Hood River County School District
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4th - 6th
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Text Structure: Features and Organization

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Teach learners how to interact with both fiction and non-fiction text with a packet of activities and worksheets. After looking over text structure and the difference in text features between different types of writing, readers analyze the information in context of the organization.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

text structure, text features, story elements, characters, setting, plot, cause and effect, sequence of events, compare and contrast

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use in a language arts reading lesson, or when surveying a new text in social studies, science, math, or any other subject
  • Have class members save the reference materials in a binder so they can use them throughout the year

Classroom Considerations

  • Doesn't come with a table of contents, so the packet is a little disorganized (but materials are still valuable)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

  • Provides most of the activities and worksheets in both English and Spanish
  • Focuses on literature and informational text alike, making it versatile for your language arts reading unit
  • Comes with graphic organizers that would work in additional reading exercises, such as cause and effect charts and Venn diagrams
  • Includes additional links and materials for extending the lessons

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.4.3 RL.5.3 RI.4.5 RI.5.5 RL.6.3 RI.6.5

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