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Text Structure Activities
Looking for text structure activities and resources? Look no further. This page has text structure lessons, tests, quizzes, and projects. I hope this helps.
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Text Structure Lesson 1
Here is a PowerPoint slide show about text structure. It covers many patterns of organization including cause and effect, sequence, chronological, problem and solution, and compare and contrast. It also includes a ten question practice activity after the lesson. Check it out!
Text Structure Lesson 2
Here is another PowerPoint slide show about text structure. It is a revision of my other text structure lesson. If I were trying to choose between the two text structure lessons, I’d go with this one. It’s an improvement over the previous lesson. This lesson features animated graphic organizers and a practice assessment at the end.
Text Structure Booklet
Here is a constructive and fun text structure project. Students create booklets where each page defines a pattern of organization and includes an original example. Students may work alone or they may partner up, in which case they must draw a picture for each definition. Feel free to modify the project sheet to require all students to draw a picture. This student-centered text structure project will give students practice with writing an synthesizing their knowledge.
Text Structure Quiz 1
Here’s a multiple-choice text structure quiz with 15 questions. It contains nine passages, each of which is about ice-cream. Students read the passages and determine the pattern of organization. Then there are six questions where students match definitions to terms.
Text Structure Quiz 2
Here is another multiple-choice text structure quiz. Students read musically themed passages and identify the text structure. This quiz contains 15 problems.
Text Structure Quiz 3
Here is yet another text structure quiz. This one is themed around inventions and patents. It contains nine passages and a total of 15 multiple-choice questions. Check it out!
Thanks for checking out my text structure activities! You may also want to check out my text structure worksheets. I wish you the greatest possible success on your educational journey.
Text Structure
Common Core State Standards
Text Structure Anchor Standard
R.5 - Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.RI.4.5 - Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
RI.5.5 - Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
RI.6.5 - Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
RI.7.5 - Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
RI.8.5 - Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
RI.11-12.5 - Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.
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Skyy Woodland
/ October 16, 2020This site is fantastic
Lisa
/ October 24, 2019Hello!
Can you check/verify the answers for #4 and #5 on the Text Structure 1 quiz? I think they may be switched.
Thank you for all the work you put into this site.
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/ February 12, 2019I am confused
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/ June 14, 2017Soooooooo helpful
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/ March 1, 2015Your PPts and worksheets have made my life much easier as a teacher. I have spent many hours recreating slides for my students. Thank you for your support.
Terri
/ April 13, 2014The answers for the quiz on Text Structure A and B are not there, or they are very hard to read with all the question marks. Is there a way to get them or have it fixed? Thanks.
I love these pages. 🙂
Mr. Morton
/ April 21, 2014Those question marks started appearing after some browsers dropped support for Microsoft Proprietary HTML code used in the Word generated HTM files. I have replaced the bad code with good code. Most of the symbols should be gone except perhaps for weird marks and characters that Word automatically substitutes.
Thanks for informing me of this problem.
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Jessica Bolhouse
/ April 8, 2014Thanks so much for this website! Super helpful in teaching my small reading group. I’ve used the PowerPoint presentation as well as the quizzes, and all have been valuable.
Patricia
/ February 14, 2014Thank you so much for all the hard work you’ve done in creating this site! Awesome!
loredana
/ May 20, 2013This site is fantastic! Books don’t teach this part of reading and they are super important when it comes to standardized tests. It’s great! I use it with all my classes.
Mr. Morton
/ July 25, 2013You’ve got that right. Thanks for visiting!
David
/ April 15, 2013THANK YOU! This is very helpful. I teach 7th grade ELA, and these tools will be invaluable in teaching patterns of organization!
Mr. Morton
/ May 1, 2013Thank you for saying so. Best wishes!
Ms. P. Quarcoo
/ September 27, 2012Excellent work. Thanks
Annarose
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Annarose
/ March 15, 2011OOOOOOHHHHHH! my son, Ben, just told me he got an A+ in his reading test on IDENTIFYING TEXT STRUCTURES!…i gave him an extra redvelvet cupcake…he hates reading…he lives for Math and gymnastics and pizza…a very good improvemant…Daddy was proud!( so was Mommy…thats me)
Annarose
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