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Writing & Reading Success Center: Summarizing Paragraphs [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

An explanation and example of summarizing a paragraph, especially helpful for taking notes on texts.

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Comparison and Contrast Text Structure

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

A reference article showing reading strategies to understand text structure of comparison and contrast.

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Prezi: Text Structure

For Students 4th - 8th Standards

Presentation explores what is text structure and the common types.

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Prezi: Informational Text (Text Structures)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

Slideshow introduces the concept of informational text or text structure.

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BBC

Bbc Skillswise: Building Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

As part of the BBC's Skillswise unit, this site focuses on the development of good paragraphs. As learning tools, the site includes a fact sheet, a worksheet, and a game. Be sure to click on the quizzes to check your understanding.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction

For Students 7th - 9th Standards

Learn how to analyze literary nonfiction, particularly speeches, by making inferences and drawing conclusions based on evidence in the text.

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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Key Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This lesson focuses on effective paragraph construction especially topic sentences.

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Educeri: Compare & Contrast the Overall Structure in Two or More Texts [Pdf]

For Students 5th Standards

A 10-page handout that explains clearly what text structure is and four different types, with accompanying examples. Different types are then presented along with two pieces of informational text and a modeled analysis, then two other...

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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure Activities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Numerous links related to analyzing text structures are provided on this site. Lesson plans, PowerPoint slides, graphic organizers, rubrics, and quizzes related to text structures are also provided to support students while analyzing...

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Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University (Dr. Mc Clennen): How to Do a Close Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This guide is written for college students, but should be very useful for upper level high school students as well. The writer first describes fourteen steps to take in doing a close reading, then provides six pieces of advice on how to...

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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure

For Students 4th - 8th Standards

This resource focuses on text structure by defining the types of organizational patterns and providing examples of each. These are followed by a list of links to practice activities on text structure and main idea, as well as some videos.

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Organization for Community Networks

Organization for Community Network: Writing Successful Paragraphs

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards

How can you learn to write a successful paragraph? This site features a lesson plan to help your students sharpen their writing skills.

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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Types of Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

How can you tell if a text is descriptive, informative, instructional or persuasive? This BBC Skillswise tutorial teaches you how with a factsheet, worksheet, quiz, and game.

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