Read Informational Nonfiction Text Structures Structure Anchor Chart Lesson Plan

✨Nonfiction Text Structure Breakdown✨ Use w/ any informational text or nonfiction passage. Editable nonfiction graphic organizers, & anchor charts for: Description, Sequence / Chronological, Problem and Solution, Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast. Everything you need to teach Identifying text structure in nonfiction passages in a fun & engaging way! Students LOVE the nonfiction activities like the text structure sort, quiz, & nonfiction passages I've included.

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The nonfiction graphic organizers, anchor charts, and text structure breakdown can breakdown any type of informational text or nonfiction passage: use it again & again to identify the text structure, author's purpose, and main idea of any passage.

• Digital & PDF Versions Included
• Text Structure Breakdown *Use again, and again, and AGAIN
• Nonfiction Text Structure Sort *Digital & Printable
• Editable Graphic Organizers
• 30+ Editable pages in Google Slides
• Links to my favorite FREE videos, passages, quizzes, and picture books

This Informational Text Structure Breakdown & Nonfiction Reading Response is just the thing!

***Use again & again & again

• Magazine articles (Time for Kids, National Geographic, Scholastic News...)
• Websites (Newsela, Read Theory, Common Lit, Read Works...etc
• Brochures (I have students bring back brochures from their trips!)
• Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passages
• ...etc

This download includes both the PDF print & (editable) digital | google slide versions. PDF Version works as EASLE activity or assessment. Each slide is JAM-PACKED with Common Core aligned ELA concepts. #NOFLUFF

• Looking for fun & engaging activities for nonfiction text structures | informational texts that's age-appropriate for your upper-grades? (Upper-Elementary - Middle School, Secondary)

• Do your students struggle with reading comprehension when it comes to nonfiction passages or informational texts?

Students love the non-fiction text activities like the Nonfiction Text Structure Breakdown Perfect for summarizing nonfiction text, author's purpose, nonfiction main idea, teaching nonfiction reading skills, nonfiction centers, no-prep sub-plans, close reading, teaching nonfiction reading strategies, informational writing research breakdown, nonfiction book reports...etc! Includes print & digital versions.

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Included:

✏️ Description Text Structure:

• Editable Anchor Charts with keywords
• Link to picture book recommendations
• Link to favorite video introduction
• Link to FREE Text structure examples
• Editable Graphic Organizer *Digital & Printable

✏️ Sequence / Chronological Text Structure:

• Editable Anchor Charts with keywords
• Link to picture book recommendations
• Link to favorite video introduction
• Link to FREE Text structure examples
• Editable Graphic Organizer *Digital & Printable

✏️ Cause and Effect Text Structure:

• Editable Anchor Charts with keywords
• Link to picture book recommendations
• Link to favorite video introduction
• Link to FREE Text structure examples
• Editable Graphic Organizer *Digital & Printable

✏️ Compare and Contrast Text Structure:

• Editable Anchor Charts with keywords
• Link to picture book recommendations
• Link to favorite video introduction
• Link to FREE Text structure examples
• Editable Graphic Organizer *Digital & Printable

✏️ Problem and Solution Text Structure:

• Editable Anchor Charts with keywords
• Link to picture book recommendations
• Link to favorite video introduction
• Link to FREE Text structure examples
• Editable Graphic Organizer *Digital & Printable

✏️ Nonfiction Text Structure Breakdown

• Digital and Printable Version
• Editable
• Use with ANY nonfiction passage, students work through graphic organizer to determine the text structure.

✏️ Nonfiction Text Structure Sort

• Digital and Printable Version
• Editable
• Great for nonfiction center / rotation activity, as a pre-assessment and post-assessment.

✏️ Extension Activities

• Complete Text Structure Graphic Organizers using details from the nonfiction passage
• Links to my favorite FREE text structure quizzes
• Links to my favorite sources for FREE nonfiction text structure passages
  

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All of these tools are intended to be used again, and again, and again! I like to model the text structure using a picture book, then use the included text structure passages as a whole class, then allow students to work independently on the additional text structure passage included.

Teachers have suggested using these with Time for Kids or Scholastic News in reading centers or rotations. Others have left them as a meaningful and effective activity to be completed with a substitute or in their emergency substitute plans.

SEE WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING… Recommended for 4th - 8th Grades

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love using the graphic organizer to reinforce how important text structures are to gather information about the passage. IT is a great tool to use over & over. Many times I pair this with Scholastic articles for a sub assignment. - 5th Grade

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love that I can use this resource with any informational text! it is super detailed and really worked well as an independent activity! I can't wait to try using it as a whole group! - 6th Grade

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I use this weekly with my AIS kids to examine articles from NewsELA. It really forces them to look carefully at the text and the text structures. - 7th Grade

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This resource has worked well with my students to support them in understanding informative text and using informative texts for research purposes without plagiarizing the text. A great reference tool! - 9th, 10th, 11th Grade

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