Teaching in Room 9 Nonfiction Text Structures: Sequencing | 3rd Grade Reading Special | 27m 53s | CC In this lesson, students will review sequencing. Then they will listen to a read-aloud of the ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Teaching text structure can help.

A similar effect has been found for lessons on text structure. Evidence also shows that it’s helpful to teach students strategies for planning, revising, and editing their own pieces.

Elementary Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Structure and Properties of Matter Deborah L. Hanuscin, Dante Cisterna and Kelsey Lipsitz Journal of Science Teacher Education , pp. 665 ...

Students are taught the five basic text structures (sequence, comparison, cause-effect, description, and problem-solution; Meyer, 1975), along with linguistic signals (clue words such as but ...