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Reading Strategy: Use text structure as you read

Author: Jodi Owens-Kristenson

Goals of this tutorial:

As you watch this tutorial, it will help you meet the following Common Core State Standard:

Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas.

Analyze how a text makes connections through an author's method of organization.

Source: Jodi Owens-Kristenson

Directions For Viewing the Tutorial

In your notebook, create the following chart and complete while viewing

Narrative Organizational Pattern or Structure

Graphic Organizer                                                  How to think while reading:

 

 

Expository (Informational) Organizational Patterns or Structures

Graphic Organizers                                             How to think while reading:

                                                                            Structure Words:

 

Source: Jodi Owens-Kristenson

Using Text Structure To Guide Thinking While Reading Narrative Text

Source: Jodi Owens-Kristenson

Using Text Structure To Guide Thinking While Reading Expository Text

Source: Jodi Owens-Kristenson