Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Character Compare [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to compare two characters. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Consideration
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Puzzled Over Paragraphs?
Here is an excellent list of ideas for teachers to utilize in their classroom to accompany paragraph writing skills. These creative and exciting activities will sharpen your student's writing abilities.
Axelson Academy
Axelson Academy:types of Texts
This professional resource will help teachers understand the different types of texts that early childhood students need to know.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Juliet vs Laura: Analyzing Sonnet Structure in Romeo and Juliet
This lesson plan asks young scholars to access their knowledge of sonnet characteristics to analyze the shared sonnet of Romeo's and Juliet's first meeting to determine the extent to which Juliet meets the Petrarchan ideal.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library: Close Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets
This lesson plan teaches students to consider diction, syntax, literary devices, and rhetorical strategies in doing a close reading of Shakespeare's sonnets.
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Summarizing Texts
Fifth graders will review what a summary is and complete a worksheet for practice. They will then write their own informational text and a peer will summarize.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Match Structure Quick Guide
A quick guide to approaching LSAT test questions that ask you to match the structure of an argument in one of the answer choices to the structure of the argument in a passage.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Match Structure Learn More
"Match the structure" questions on the LSAT test your ability to determine how an argument goes. It begins with an argument in the stimulus and then asks you to choose another argument from among the choices that is structurally the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Identify the Role Learn More
Some questions ask you to describe the individual role that a statement is playing in a larger argument. These questions require you to understand the statement in question, but even more important is your understanding of its context...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Organizing Information Quick Guide
Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Previewing Texts in Content Classrooms
Textbook previewing strategies focus not only on the structure of the text - such as the table of contents, index, chapter introductions, and so forth - but on a content overview, which focuses on the concepts and questions covered in...
ACT360 Media
Writing Den
The WritingDEN includes feature articles with associated words, sentences, and paragraphs to aid in the writing process. Interactive features include pronunciation guides and content quizzes. The Tips-o-matic section offers grammar...
Other
Noodle Tools: Basic Language Literacy: Writing: Paragraph Art
When you create a coherent paragraph, it can be represented by any number of visual images. This page shows examples of how that might work to help writers understand the idea of coherence.
Quia
Quia: Text Structure Practice Part #1
After reading key words and phrases, determine the correct text structure in this Rags to Riches style game.
Other
Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Summarizing
Teach students to summarize nonfiction text with these lesson plans. Includes worksheets and activities that can be downloaded and printed.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Summarizing
Summarizing teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for a more concise understanding. Upon reading a passage, summarizing helps students learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Reading Comprehension and Structure
This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...
TES Global
Blendspace: Expository Writing
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, a video, and a quiz about expository writing, text structures, conjunctive adverbs, and more.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Structure & Author's Purpose
A ten-part learning module with links to videos, images, and websites to use while learning about text structure and author's purpose.
TES Global
Blendspace: Grammar Pre Learner Week 1 Paragraphing
A six-part learning module with links to images, videos, and websites about writing a paragraph.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Using Complete Sentences
This interactive focuses on complete sentences; it provides notes explaining what makes a complete sentence and two practices identifying complete sentences.
Other
Prezi: Bme Beginning Middle End
Become a better reader by learning how to identify the beginning, middle, and the end of a story. Discover what clue words will help with the identification.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Paragraph Structure
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson was designed to help students to analyze how individual paragraphs are structured in writing.