Did you know that an information text can be structured in five different ways? Students have been learning that they can actually determine the way a text is structured to help them better understand information of that text. The five categories are: cause & effect, compare & contrast, sequence, problem & solution, and description.
Students were taught the five types of structures and given short paragraphs to sort based on the evidence from the text. They were to organize them into their correct structure and prove how they knew it was that particular structure. Throughout the process they discovered that most texts have some of the structures present however there is always one overall structure that the author chooses to present information to the reader.
Students collaborate with one another to figure out what structure is found in their paragraph. They used their signal questions from the chart to check their finding's.
This group had great discussions and deeply challenged each others thoughts about the structures it could be.
Final grouping of paragraphs! They had such a blast with this lesson!
Now that students have a better understanding of text structure they will be moving into creating a class non-fiction book about poisonous dart frogs. They will have to take information given and think about the text structure of that information and create text features to be published for an audience. It will be a challenging task but we are excited to see what they come up with!! Stay tuned!
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