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Learning Objective : Identify text structures in expository texts

Learning Objective : Identify text structures in expository texts Reading comprehension standard 2.1. What are we Identifying today?. Text Structures in Expository text. The Importance of knowing text structures. Good readers use a variety of strategies to help them comprehend.

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Learning Objective : Identify text structures in expository texts

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  1. Learning Objective: Identify text structures in expository texts Reading comprehension standard 2.1

  2. What are we Identifying today? Text Structures in Expository text.

  3. The Importance of knowing text structures Good readers use a variety of strategies to help them comprehend.

  4. Expository Text Expository: give information Share with your partner the last text that you read that gave you information?

  5. Posing and Answering Questions - is a way of giving information by first asking a question. After the question is asked, an answer is given. Posing a question – The writer asks a question (usually a rhetorical question) • Who was the first President of the United States? Answering a question- The writer provides an answer to the question asked • The first President of the United States was George Washington. • George Washington is often referred to as the father of his country. • George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 that is when we celebrate President’s Day.

  6. How do we identify text structures? Make poster Step 1: Read the Expository text Step 2: Identify signal/clue words Step 3: Ask yourself does the text compare and contrast, sequence, proposition and support, cause and effect

  7. How do we identify text structures? Step 1: Read the Expository text Step 2: Identify signal/clue words Step 3: Ask yourself does the text compare and contrast, sequence, proposition and support, cause and effect Compare and Contrast

  8. Step 1 : Read the text carefully Step 2: Look for posing and answering the question Step 3: Look for sentence(s) that provide the answer Step 4: Circle yes if the text is posing and answering questions and no if it is not Paragraph 1 1 Submarines are used today to explore shipwrecks. 2. How will submarines be used in the future? 3. In the future, tourist submarines can be used. 4. People can travel by submarine to see the wonders that live under the sea. Posing and answering? YES NO How do you know?

  9. Identifying Text Structures Proposition and Support Cause and Effect Compare and Contrast Sequence

  10. Closure Pencils and chalk are both writing utensils. They are different because we use pencils to write on paper and chalk to write on blackboards. 2.I went to the park because I wanted to play basketball. 3. Sarah and Jimmy are the same because they are both in the 4th grade. But Sarah enjoys reading. On the other hand, Jimmy enjoys math.

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