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.
Let’s Know! is a supplemental curriculum designed to develop comprehension skills, such as vocabulary, text structure knowledge, inference, and comprehension monitoring, over the course of a school year.
This activity engages students in evaluating authors’ purpose. Students sort passages into three categories of author’s purpose: persuade, inform, and entertain.
