Text Structure Unit: 5 Lessons with Nonfiction Passages, Grades 5-6

Five days of nonfiction text structure, each lesson ready to teach and each built around its own original informational texts. Students start by naming the five structures and hunting signal words, and finish by explaining why an author chooses a structure and rebuilding a set of notes in a new one.

What's inside

• 5 lessons, one folder each, 75 slides in all: 15, 16, 15, 14 and 15 slides, with speaker notes on every slide
• 5 lesson plans, 2 pages each, each with a 25-minute version
• 5 reading passages, 8 pages in all: 2, 1, 1, 2 and 2 pages
• 5 student worksheets, 2 pages each
• 5 answer keys, 1 page each
• 5 all-printables PDFs, one per day, ready to print: 7, 6, 6, 7 and 7 pages

Answer key included

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