Non fiction Text Structure Unit
Nonfiction articles present a challenge to young readers. The Common Core State English-language Arts
Standards provides a convincing argument, we need to “up” the
level of text complexity and provide greater opportunities for independent
reading.
Text complexity is the
most important variable in reading comprehension.
The level of difficulty is a more important variable in reading
comprehension than is a reader’s degree of mastery of inferential reading strategies or critical
thinking skills. In other words, what
you read is more of an issue than how
you read.
The Purpose
of this Unit:
Students
will understand:
- All texts have a structure that organizes
information.
- Chronological/Sequential
- Problem-Solution
- Cause & Effect
- Compare & Contrast
- When writing, authors decide how they want
to organize information and choose text structure based on their goals or
purposes.
- A text structure arranges events, ideas, or
information in a text.
- Identifying the structure of a text can
help you better understand the main ideas an author is sharing.
- The text structure an author chooses is
connected to an author’s purpose.
- There are key words that help identify a
particular text structure.
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