Teaching Text Structures: A Key to Nonfiction Reading Success: Research-Based Strategy Lessons With Reproducible Passages for Teaching Students to ... Textbooks, Reference Materials & More

by Sue Dymock, Tom Nicholson

Two professors share their research-based, field-tested approach for helping students identify and analyze the most common expository text structures in order to better comprehend the nonfiction they read. Students gain valuable experience recognizing descriptive, sequential, problem-solution, and cause-effect patterns in texts. Using graphic organizers helps them visualize and remember key information in the article. Detailed lesson plans with companion reproducible articles and diagrams help teachers confidently put theory into practice. For use with Grades 4–6.

Genres: Education

240 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2007

Reviews

[Whitney Sorensen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great because this book explains all the reasons why teaching text strategies is critical. I also liked the parts about how it ties in with comprehension. Since that is really what I bought the book for, I won't complain much about the somewhat lame lesson plans and how even though it preached simplicity, it made all of the categories of text structures rather complicated. Well researched though, and I also liked and plan to use some of the sample articles. This is a great book if you teach any kind of remedial reading.

[Mbuick88 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is very helpful for teaching text structure using many nonfiction articles based on a 4th to 7th grade reading level.