Book Review: Teaching Text Structures (A Key to Nonfiction Reading Success) - 4 views

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  #1 Lauren Scherr on 13 Feb 12

   

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  #2 Lauren Scherr on 13 Feb 12

   

  This is a phenomenal book for teaching text structures. For those who aren't familiar with text structure, it's basically the format that an author chooses to write a text in. Text structure is usually strongly tied to the purpose of the text being read. The different types of text structure are:
  
  -Sequence/Chronological
  -Cause & Effect
  -Problem & Solution
  -Descriptive
  -Compare & Contrast
  
  Historically questions addressing text structure have been very common on the MEAP assessment. We all know that the MEAP will be out the door in a few years, but text structure is not going to go away. If a student can identify the text structure of a piece of non-fiction it is very useful for them, because they can reliably use it to determine the author's purpose/purpose of the article.
  
  This book, Teaching Text Structures: A Key to Nonfiction Reading Success, is one that we have been using in the reading support classes for 6th, 7th and 8th grade where I am student teaching. It has 100% research-based strategy lessons and has many copyable pieces of nonfiction that you can use when teaching student. Along with each article in the book is a corresponding graphic organizer that can be used to teach the article. For example, if you choose a compare and contrast text from this book, it may have a Venn Diagram with it that you can give to students that allows them to compare and contrast the different things talked about in the text. My class used an article from the book called "Koala Chaos" which outlined a controversy in Australia in which the government, conservations, and animal rights activists were in disagreement over how to handle the overpopulation of koalas on an island which was leading to destruction of the island's natural Eucalyptus Trees. The article comes with a graphic organizer that shows the problem, overpopulation of koalas, and lets students write in possible solutions and what repercussions might be involved with each. This was an example of problem and solution text structure.
  
  I really like the book because it has so many tools for teaching and I think that the printable texts and graphic organizers can be helpful in building interactive lessons for students. Because it is nonfiction text and has a variety of different articles in it, the book could be a valuable resource for teachers of almost any subject.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is a phenomenal book for teaching text structures. For those who aren't familiar with text structure, it's basically the format that an author chooses to write a text in. Text structure is usually strongly tied to the purpose of the text being read. The different types of text structure are: <br /> <br /> -Sequence/Chronological <br /> -Cause & Effect <br /> -Problem & Solution <br /> -Descriptive <br /> -Compare & Contrast <br /> <br /> Historically questions addressing text structure have been very common on the MEAP assessment. We all know that the MEAP will be out the door in a few years, but text structure is not going to go away. If a student can identify the text structure of a piece of non-fiction it is very useful for them, because they can reliably use it to determine the author's purpose/purpose of the article. <br /> <br /> This book, Teaching Text Structures: A Key to Nonfiction Reading Success, is one that we have been using in the reading support classes for 6th, 7th and 8th grade where I am student teaching. It has 100% research-based strategy lessons and has many copyable pieces of nonfiction that you can use when teaching student. Along with each article in the book is a corresponding graphic organizer that can be used to teach the article. For example, if you choose a compare and contrast text from this book, it may have a Venn Diagram with it that you can give to students that allows them to compare and contrast the different things talked about in the text. My class used an article from the book called "Koala Chaos" which outlined a controversy in Australia in which the government, conservations, and animal rights activists were in disagreement over how to handle the overpopulation of koalas on an island which was leading to destruction of the island's natural Eucalyptus Trees. The article comes with a graphic organizer that shows the problem, overpopulation of koalas, and lets students write in possible solutions and what repercussions might be involved with each. This was an example of problem and solution text structure. <br /> <br /> I really like the book because it has so many tools for teaching and I think that the printable texts and graphic organizers can be helpful in building interactive lessons for students. Because it is nonfiction text and has a variety of different articles in it, the book could be a valuable resource for teachers of almost any subject.</div>

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