Teaching students to use the structures of text plays an effective role in organizing their understanding and recalling of important ideas. "The approaches to teaching text structure have exhibited substantial variability, beginning with general attempts to sensitise students to structural elements, extending to hierarchical summaries of key ideas and to visual representations of key ideas, such as conceptual maps, semantic networks, charts and graphs" (Duke & Pearson, 2002, p.217). Students begin to look through the texts for structure by teachers discussing the three components of modelling, guided practice and independent practice that enhance their comprehension (Duke & Pearson, 2002).
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/text-structure/text-structure-activities/
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Useful teaching ressources of non-fiction text structures for teachers
http://msjordanreads.com/2012/04/19/non-fiction-text-structures/
http://usd262.com/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/3550/File/Curriculum/Literacy/Comprehension/Textstructure_resources.pdf
The text structure lesson on the left is a very practical teaching resource for teaching text structure strategies.
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