Text Structure Lesson: Five Structures and Signal Words, Grades 5-6

Ask a student how a text is built and you often get a shrug. This lesson gives them five names (description, sequence, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution), the signal words that hint at each one, and a plain organizer shape to match.

What's inside

• 15 slides, with speaker notes on all 15
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Reading passage, 2 pages: five short texts, A to E
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• All printables in one ready-to-print PDF, 7 pages

Answer key included

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