College and Career Readiness: analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs and larger portions of the text relate to each other and the whole.
Book Structure: books tend to follow a specific pattern: front and back covers, title page, the table of contents, the way the text is organized, the glossary and then the index
Learning to understand text structure can benefit comprehension. Texts are arranged by ideas and the relationships between ideas. Research shows that students that know more about text structure are able to recall information better than students that struggle with text structure.
Predict-O-Gram: students are given a list of words that relate to the five narrative elements (characters, setting, problem, attempts to resolve and resolution). Students use these words to predict which word is connected with which element. They then write down their predictions in a graphic organizer.
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