Text Structures

It is said that when you read informational text, you automatically sort the information into a graphic organizer in your mind. That's how you make sense of it. So, the question is, HOW do we know how to do that? For some people it's a natural thing. But for most of our students the answer is practice, practice, practice.

The graphic organizers in this product will help you students start to read with a purpose, and get them thinking about how to break informational text down. Doing this is the first step to getting your students to understand author's purpose.

This download includes:

  1. 5 Graphic Organizers: Help students understand and break apart informational text with Sequence, Problem/solution, Cause/Effect, Description, and Compare/Contrast graphic organizers. They can be used with your favorite informational text throughout the year.

  2. Text Structure Assessment/Practice: 5 original short informational text paragraphs for students to read and analyze to determine how the text is structured. They will respond on the one page Graphic Organizer Answer Sheet. Answer key included.

Products are PDF downloads

This download includes:

  1. Google Slides Presentation: This google slides presentation is animated to help you guide and fully control the lesson. The notes gives definitions and examples for: Stanza, Repetition, Rhyme, Rhyme Scheme, Line Breaks. Speaker notes are also included to help you make the most of the mini lesson.

  2. Interactive Notebook Foldable: Printable foldable for your students to take notes while you are teaching. The rhyme scheme examples are also included to give students hands on practice while going over the concept as a class.

  3. Individual or Group Activity: 5 Quest Cards where students will gain practice with identifying and applying structure elements.

  • Quest 1: Identifying Stanzas and Analyzing the purpose

  • Quest 2: Identifying Rhyme Scheme

  • Quest 3: Analyzing the Purpose of Line Breaks

  • Quest 4: Analyzing the Effect of Repetition

  • Quest 5: Putting it all together.

*All PDF downloads, Link to google slides is included in the instructions.

Before you take a deep dive into poetry, are you looking for an engaging way to review, teach, and/or introduce POETRY STRUCTURES to your middle school students? Then this is it! This lesson is a great intro to poetry and will help your students bre…

Before you take a deep dive into poetry, are you looking for an engaging way to review, teach, and/or introduce POETRY STRUCTURES to your middle school students? Then this is it! This lesson is a great intro to poetry and will help your students break down the basics of how a poem is structured by learning about and exploring stanza, repetition, rhyme, rhyme scheme, and line break.

 

This tech activity gives students a creative and collaborative way to review poetry types by:

1. Reading a poem, 2. Scanning a QR code on the back of the poem, 3. QR code links to a Google Form that asks about the poetry type.

This download includes:

  1. Poetry Type Notes: Gives definitions and characteristics of Sonnets, Limericks, Free Verse, Narrative, Couplet, Haiku. Interactive notebook foldable is also included!

  2. 12 Poems: Poems are actual examples of the types of poems listed above. They are printed in a frame with an identification number.

  3. Detailed Instructions: How to create QR Codes and correlated Google Forms (with pictures since that always helps me!)

  4. Please Note: This activity DOES NOT include the QR codes since you have to create ones that match your Google Forms. It does, however, give you step by step instructions on how to do this!

All items are PDF downloads

The Google Slides notes link is included in the directions.

 

This Download Includes:

1. Google Slides Presentation: Gives definitions, descriptions, and examples for: Sonnet, Limerick, Haiku, Narrative, Ballad, Free Verse, Couplet, & Cinquain. Notes sheet included. There are speaker notes to show how to allow for collaboration

2. Practice Activities:

  • Matching/Sorting Activity. Students will match the type of poem to the characteristics.

  • Quest 1: Determining the difference between a sonnet and a ballad

  • Quest 2: Writing your own limerick based off an image

  • Quest 3: Writing a Haiku and a My-Ku (Their own version of a Haiku using a dice to determine the number of syllables in each line)

  • Quest 4: Use the same image to write a Couplet and a Cinquain

  • Quest 5: Black out the unwanted words to create an original free verse poem.

*All PDF downloads and link to Google Slides {on teacher instruction sheet}

Knowing poetry structure and form is the first step for your students understanding the meaning of the poem. This product is an engaging way to teach and introduce poetry structure and form to your students.