Nonfiction Text Structure - Text Structure Activities- Reading Comprehension

High-interest text structure activities for secondary students are hard to find! These engaging nonfiction text structure lessons teach students to read informational text strategically - including sequence texts, texts with the cause and effect structure, problem and solution texts, compare and contrast nonfiction articles, and description or descriptive text types!

Students will identify and define the 5 nonfiction text structures and learn signal words associated with each. Best of all, you'll be provided with links to five nonfiction articles representing each text type for text structure assessment, practice, and application activities!

This resource includes 20 Google Slides identifying each nonfiction text structure type, providing a helpful visual cue or graphic, listing signal words for each,and explaining the purpose for each type of writing. Application activities using engaging nonfiction articles will further enhance their understanding!

This nonfiction text structure resource provides practice in the following areas:

• Summarizing details
• Analyzing informational text for meaning
• Identifying the main idea in nonfictional articles
• Determining the author’s purpose

Links to engaging text structure sets for cause and effect, descriptive, sequence, compare/contrast and problem/solution are included! Students will learn the organizational structure of nonfiction texts and the signal words associated with each type.

With this purchase, you will receive the following materials:

Text Structure: Nonfiction and Informational Text

★ 18 Modern Google Slides on Text Structures and Text Types

★Links to Two High-Interest Videos for Each Text Structure

★ Visuals and Graphics for Each Text Structure

★ Slides with Signal Words for Each

★ Links to Nonfiction Articles and Informational Text Sets for Each Text Structure (compare/contrast, descriptive/classification, cause/effect, problem/solution, and sequence)

★ Text Comprehension Handout, Article Links, and Questions for Each of the Five Nonfiction Text Structures

★ Teacher’s Text Structure Grading Rubric

★ Detailed Notes and Teacher’s Implementation Guide

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"This is a great resource! Very detailed and well organized! My students loved it! It was very easy for me to follow the outline of the unit!"

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"This is a pretty extensive resource on nonfiction text structures. There are notes with video links, specific examples (lots of them!) of each text structure type, and ways to keep students accountable throughout. Well worth the money."

Leslie M.

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“Great for instruction and assessment of text structures!"

Shannon R.

Wait! This resource can also be purchased as part of a Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Strategies Bundle!

You can purchase the following resource bundle below for this resource and for additional materials and activities on nonfiction text features. This bundle will save you over 20% off vs. purchasing the two products separately:

Text Features and Text Structure: Nonfiction Activities for Teens and Tweens!

Looking for additional materials to use for implementing nonfiction and informational text in your classroom?

Try these!

Informational Text Graphic Organizers and Bell Ringers for Google Drive: Bundle

Reading Choice Boards: Fiction & Nonfiction Activities, Assessment for ANY Text!

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