Last week, as part of our nonfiction study, we looked at how to paraphrase sentences. Paraphrasing is the process of putting ideas from the ...

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...

Reading about Antarctica creates the perfect situation to help students learn more about how to change their prior knowledge. In general, re...

As the cold winds begin to howl, I like to bring an assortment of texts about Antarctica into the classroom. Antarctica is a great fit for f...

Text structure picture books View more documents from Emily Kissner . Over the past few weeks, I've been working on a project to put t...

The text structure of description can go by various names. Some resources call it description; others call it statement and support; still o...

While it's been tough to find good books that sustain the compare and contrast text structure, I've found some great problem and sol...