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California Polytechnic State University: Shakespearean Verse and Prose
Explains terms used in discussing how verse and prose were used by Shakespeare, and how to recognize prose, rhyme, and blank verse in his plays, and what their functions are. RL.9-10.5 text structure effects
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Text Structure of Relationships in Text: Waves and Tides
In this science-themed literacy lesson, students analyze the structure of relationships among concepts in a text and how those relationships help to develop the meaning of a text.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Cause and Effect Text Structure
Cause and Effect is a text organization structure and knowing this structure can help you in comprehending a text. Learn about these strategies on this site.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Projected Paragraphs
A lesson plan in which students read a text and highlight the most important details. Materials are included. [PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Feature Find
A lesson plan in which students look through a book to find various text features including: a table of contents, sequence and format, charts/graphs/maps, diagrams/graphics/illustrations, print variations, an index, and a glossary....
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Just the Facts
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the topic and supporting details or facts. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Narr. Text Structure: Picture the Character
A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to illustrate and write characteristics of one of the characters. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Main Idea [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text and then read it again highlighting the key words and phrases that are important for understanding the text. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Book Look [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Main Idea Mania
A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on one of the graphic organizers provided. Materials are included. [PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying
A lesson plan in which students read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Research Roundup
A lesson plan in which students complete graphic organizers as they gather research information. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Detail Delight [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners read a text use a graphic organizer to record the topic and supporting details. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Reading the Research
A lesson plan in which students review reference materials looking for answers to specific questions. Materials are included.
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Lexiconic.net: Elements of Poetry
This resource explains how to approach an analysis of a poem. It discusses assumptions people may have, the importance of reading it closely before analyzing it, looking at the stanza structure, the type of poem, the sound patterns,...
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: Sandra Day O'connor
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text Sandra Day O'Connor and a linked passage about Margaret Thatcher and then complete questions over the paired texts.RI.11-12.5 Evaluate text structure
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: How to Read and Analyze an Essay (English Iii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson's activities, you will determine the purpose of description, narration, and exposition essays, analyze their literary devices, and examine text features. You...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: An Example of Greek New Comedy
This site is actually an in-depth lesson plan for the teaching of the Greek New Comedy, "The Grouch," by Menander. For learners, it provides a great deal of detail about the play and background material on Greek comedy as a whole....
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Realism:"an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Ambrose Bierce
This lesson focuses on the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. It discusses the use of literary techniques such as stream of consciousness, forshadowing, flashback and flash-forward, and offers a PDF of...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Nonfict Readers Analyze Structure/views[pdf]
This graphic organizer contains questions for students as they analyze any nonfiction text. Students will read closely to determine the text's structure, viewpoint, and tone. This graphic organizer is a copyrighted material that may be...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Totalitarianism in Stalinist Russia
A module where students analyze how the author uses text structure to emphasize key points or explanations in order to achieve the purpose for writing or point of view.
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Mantex: Tutorials: What Is Close Reading?
This site discusses the four types of reading: Linguistic, Semantic, Structural, and Cultural and offers a detailed example of close reading. RL.11-12.3 Auth choice story elem, RL.11-12.5 Choice of Text Structure
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Literary Devices: Ode Examples and Definition
Explains what an ode is, the different types (Pindaric, Horatian, and irregular), and gives some modern examples. Discusses the significance of odes in the history of literature and gives examples with explanations. Three multiple-choice...
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