Nature of the Text
Narrative Text and Story Schema
Nature of a text is the story's structure. Such as the main idea of a text, and supporting details. If a reader understands the nature of a text this will make them a better reader.
Analyzing Text Complexity
The Narrative Text and Scheme ; is an internal representation or sense of the story.
Retelling; retelling a story is telling a story that one has read or heard. Retelling is used to check comprehension or gain insight into a student's reading processes.
Developmental Retelling ; is a way of improving students' comprehension of selections as well as their language and cognitive skills by building prerequisite skills that match students levels.
Pretelling At this stage students learn to explain everyday tasks such as walking their dog.
Reenactments students act out a scene or story they have read or heard.
Writing Stories In the process of writing stories the story structure can be used as a framework for composing stories.
Comprehension of Narratives requires the students being aware of their level of knowledge of narratives. As well as having the students be aware of ones culture.
Guided Reading This is where students are aided first by illustrating and then by artifacts.
Informational text; is where a writing that is designed to explain or provide information
Story Grammars; is a series of rules designed to show how the parts of a story are interrelated.
Story Maps provide an overview of a story; characters, setting, problem, plot, and ending.
Teaching Information Text Structure; Being aware of how a text commends using the CORE model (Connect, organize, Reflect, and Extend)
Types of informational structure
Text Structures is the way a piece of writing is organized: Main idea and details, comparison-contrast, problem-solution, and so on.
3. Explanation-process; An explanation tells how something works, such as how coal is formed, how a Diesel engine works, or how bill becomes a law. The explanation process can also include some of the signal words as those found in time-sequence structures.
4. Comparison-contrast; This type of structure presents differences and/ or similarities.
2. Time Sequence; This type of structure is similar to enumeration; however, time order is specified.
5. Problem-solution A statement of a problem is followed by a possible solution or series for solutions.
1. Enumeration-Description ; This types of structure list details about a subject without giving any cause-effect or time relationship among them.
6. Cause and Effect; An effect is presented along with a single cause ir assures of causes. Signal words: because, therefore, thus, cause, since, for this reason, effect, as a result, consequently.
Using graphic organizers Is a graph used by students to put in their consent and structure about a text. A long with written their concepts into circles, rectangles, or triangles, and interrelationships with lines or arrows.
Organize, The teacher helps the students to see how the information in the text is structured.
Reflect; Students should think over how the text is organized and how knowing the organization helps them better understand it.
Extend students expand their learning. By students using a web to help them organize their steps/informational texts they might gather additional information to add to their web.
Connect the teacher helps the students build on the known by connecting what they know to the topic the text will investigate.
Using questions to make connections The right kinds of questions can help students detect relationships among ideas in a text.
Text easability assessor provides an analysis of the text structure cues and other cohesive devices used in a text and provides information that can be used to plan instruction