Text Structure Lesson: Why an Author Chooses a Structure, Grades 5-6

A recipe is almost always a list of steps. Why don't authors write recipes as a comparison? This lesson teaches students that a structure is a choice the author makes for a reader, and has them rebuild a set of notes in a new structure to see what changes.

What's inside

• 15 slides, with speaker notes on all 15
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Reading passage, 2 pages: notes and two texts, 1 to 3
• 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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