One of my favorite parts about reading is the way that readers constantly go back and forth between the micro and the macro. At the micro le...

Back in 2008, as I was doing presentations about summarizing, I was surprised that teachers wanted more about text structures--more examples...

This week, we have been working on cause and effect text structure. Cause and effect is deceptively difficult for young readers. On the surf...

I'm always looking around for good examples of text structure to share with my students. (And, of course, when I can't find what I w...

This week, I've found two online texts to complement what I'm teaching in the classroom. Compare and contrast: We are currently r...

A collection of cause and effect texts for your classroom: Cause and Effect Texts for Teaching Text Structure The behavior of animals at...

This week, I switched our focus from looking at chronological order text to looking at cause and effect text. Students often confuse these t...

In the text structure of cause and effect, an author explains one or more causes, and then explains one or more effects. Young readers can h...

Back when I went to school, I remember filling out worksheet after worksheet on cause and effect. Yet we never linked those worksheets to ac...

Here is a projectable book that introduces the text structure of cause and effect. Eventually, I'll format it for use as a regular boo...