Text Structure

Jump to Lesson plans in the following Text Structure areas: Text Structure Compare and Contrast Cause and Effect Sequencing

Text Structure Reading Trail Focusing on text structure, this site provides a series of lessons with sample readings about climbing Mt. Everest. [Link]/[Link] Strengthening Reading and Writing Skills Using the Internet Scholastic offers a series of lessons focusing on different text organizing strategies, e.g., sequencing, compare-contrast. [Link]/professional/teachtech/[Link] Understanding Text Implementation Guide This site provides an introductory lesson to the concept of text structure and includes sample social studies texts and questions. [Link]/secure/ss/general/strategies/[Link] Idea Maps This site provides very simple graphic organizers for different text structures. [Link]/training/StrategicReading/[Link] The Textmapping Project This site describes the benefits of textmapping, which is an alternative type of graphic organizer that involves the text being reproduced in scroll fashion and a spatially descriptive form of marking text. [Link]/[Link] Literacy MattersGraphic Organizer Page Go to the Literacy Matters Graphic Organizer page to check out our pre-selected list of graphic organizers. [Link]/content/study/[Link] Compare and Contrast Comparing and Contrasting Prentice Hall School provides a web page that uses a science example to teach the compare-contrast structure. It includes a simple exercise for students to do online comparing two different kinds of cells. [Link]/science/biosurf/superread/unit4/[Link] Teaching the Compare/Contrast Essay This is a simple, well-organized lesson plan that provides step-by-step directions for writing a compare-contrast essay and paragraph. It includes a proofreading guide

and a compare-contrast rubric. [Link]/cybereng/rubric/c&[Link] Compare and Contrast This site offers a simple lesson for 5th graders that uses the example of comparing soccer and basketball. It also provides directions for writing a compare-contrast paper. [Link]/fifth_grade_tpes/compare_contrast.html Comparing and Contrasting Journals This page is a middle-school level lesson that has students compare journals of two different explorers. [Link]/[Link] Teachers' Handbook of Lesson Plans This is a lesson with sample biographical paragraphs to compare and a usable diagram. [Link]/ged/LessonPlans/LanguageArtsReading/[Link] Using Graphic Organizers Implementation Guide This page focuses on using graphic organizers to understand the compare-contrast text structure by citing sample essays that compare Jefferson and Hamilton. [Link]/secure/ss/general/strategies/[Link] Picture This This is a math lesson that focuses on compare-contrast using variations of shutter speed in photography. [Link]/lessonrepro/lessonplans/[Link] Reading: How Television has Redefined Americans' Lives This page uses sample articles and charts to help students write a compare-contrast essay. The students compare their own TV watching habits with a national poll. [Link]/PSSA/reading/[Link] Compare and Contrast Diagram Reading Quest offers a printable handout for graphing the compare-contrast text structure. It is especially useful for younger students. [Link]/go/readquest/pdf/[Link] Comparison-Contrast Organizers This web site shows different graphical ways to organize compare-contrast essays. It explains column, matrix, and Venn organizers and gives a general sample and specific example of each. [Link]/~cal/database/[Link]#Comparison Thinking Maps: Examples This page has a sample of a double bubble map, which allows for showing both the similarities and differences at the same time. [Link]/httmexam.php3 Cause and Effect

Cause-and-Effect Writing Challenges Students This article presents three teachers' views on teaching the cause/effect text structure and contains links to five lessons on the Web. [Link]/a_curr/[Link] Reading a Cause-and-Effect Article Thislesson for middle school students explores in depth how to infer and analyze cause/effect patterns by reading a news article. [Link]/elotM/0030526671/student/ch03/lg1403092_103.pdf Cause and Effect This site offers tips for writing a cause/effect essay, including sample outlines, thesis sentences, and transitional words. [Link]/jforman/expository/Causal%[Link] What and Why (Cause and Effect) The University of Illinois Extension offers a lesson for teachers to use with science and social studies. It begins by explaining real-life examples of cause and effect and transitions into science examples for the middle grades. [Link]/ce/[Link] Cause and Effect Reading Lesson Plan This is an excellent introduction for science teachers to the concept of cause and effect. It offers a chart, chain of events, problem/solution diagram, and Venn diagram to analyze the different aspects of cause and effect. [Link]/[Link] Seeing Reason: Mindful Mapping of Cause and Effect Intel provides a free, interactive, online mapping tool that helps students map relationships and construct models of their understanding. This page also includes examples and classroom strategies. [Link]/scripts-seeingreason/[Link] Cause and Effect Diagram (Fishbone Diagram) This site gives a blank fishbone diagram and an example of a filled out diagram. [Link]/tqmtools/[Link] Sequencing May I Take Your Order, Please? (A Sequencing Activity) This lesson plan provides a sequencing activity in which the students narrow down the story's key events and then create a sequencing quiz to go with the story. It also offers suggestions for use in other content areas. [Link]/a_lesson/03/[Link] Timelines: Timeless Teaching Tool This article offers an overview lesson on how to use timelines in your class. [Link]/a_lesson/[Link] Sequencing Fun Page This site provides manipulative games for putting things in order using pictures of

typical student behavior like brushing teeth, making a sandwich, and other everyday activities. This is an excellent site for students who benefit from using a hands-on approach. [Link]/pages/[Link] Non-fiction Retelling Rubric This page by Julie Kendall, MiddleWeb's language arts expert, shares her rubric for retelling expository text in order. [Link]/ReadWrkshp/RWdownld/[Link] Sequencing Rubric This page by Julie Kendall, MiddleWeb's language arts expert, shares her rubric for sequencing. [Link]/ReadWrkshp/RWdownld/[Link] Sequencing Chart Houghton Mifflin offers a simple chart on sequencing for students. [Link]/graphicorganizer/pdf/[Link] Sequencing Map This site provides a simple sequencing map. [Link]/~teaching/graphorg/[Link] Printables: Sequencing This site provides a simple sequencing map. [Link]/lesson-plans/[Link] Time Line Maker This site provides a simple online generator of vertical or horizontal time lines. [Link]/web_tools/materials/timelines/ TimeLiner 5.0 This web site offers a free download of a demonstration piece of software. This teacher favorite generates timelines that can be used in all content areas. [Link]/products/productextras/TIMV50/