Text Structure

An understanding of how stories are organized in narrative text and/or that certain words can signal specific expository text structure, such as cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem-solution, and sequence.
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Students identify text structure elements of an expository text.
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Students work to answer questions about, and identify story elements of, a fiction text.
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In this activity students are provided with two stacks of cause/effect cards. Students take turns matching cause and effect sentence cards.
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Students sort parts of a story into correpsonding story element categories.
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In this activity students listen to an expository text and identify key details
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In this activity students work to identify details and facts in an expository text.
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This tool has several instructional routines that can be used to teach listening comprehension.
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Students identify main idea and supporting details in an expository text.
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Students analyze the plot of a fiction/narrative text.
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Students retell a narrative story by identifying key story elements.
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The Research aka
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Advances in reading science since 2000 offer important contributions to our understanding of how children learn to read and how adults teach children to read. We now know that listening comprehension plays a crucial role in students’ listening comprehension.

The Knowledge Base offers a curated set of recent evidence-based research findings intended to help practitioners better understand listening comprehension and its connection to other literacy skills (such as word reading, reading fluency, background knowledge, and reading comprehension).

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