Activity Description
Title: Non-Fiction - - Text Structure
This ACTIVITY has a set of teaching-learning strategies proven to increase student mastery of this critical Reading-Information standard: determining the text structure(s) chosen by the author to communicate his or her message. Students review the most frequently-sued text structures - - chronological; comparison-contrast; cause-effect; description; problem-solution; and persuasion, including the graphic organizers used to display text details and reflect the structure. A variation of this standard appears every year on high-stakes tests, many times asking students to identify the structure. [At Grades K-5, each Activity attaches student-sized texts, templates, and test items that teachers can quickly print.]
Enabling Skills: (1)identify the elements of a non-fiction text: topic, main idea; support details; and author perspective - - bias vs objective; and (2) determine which specific details develop the author’s message.
Direct Instruction: Suggested teaching strategies are given that model for students what they need to do to begin their journey toward mastery. Activities include definitions and illustrations of major text structures, including the graphics to display them. Students practice with sample informational texts.
Quick-Writes: Standards-based writing prompts are provided that require students to document that they have internalized the core ideas of the standard(s) and can show independent mastery. These include the description of the author’s text structure.
High-Stakes Look-Alike Assessments: At Grades 3-8, the Activities include two tests - - one for practice - - followed by classroom analysis of errors made - - and the second test to determine mastery. The test items are constructed to look exactly like those items students will encounter on their High-Stakes Tests.
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