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If Students Can Understand Text Structure, They Know How Ideas Are…
If Students Can Understand Text Structure, They Know How Ideas Are Connected Through Text
Sentence Organization
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sentences come in 3 predictable varieties: declarative, interrogative, exclamatory
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having the chance to unpack complex sentences helps students strengthen their sentence-level comprehension, and overall reading comprehension
Paragraph Organization
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typical paragraph pattern follows an introductory sentence, supporting details, concluding sentence
some paragraphs are unpredictable, and range from one to multiple sentences
Examples: descriptive, sequential, cause and effect, comparison
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Superstructure
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in well written texts, every word matters because of how it contributes to the whole text
as teachers we don't want to define structure narrowly, or think too narrowly
if we do we will likely overlook the critical but subtle comprehension demands that warrant a readers attention
to make the reading experience meaningful, we can select key structural elements from sentences to the superstructure to highlight and impact
By Miles, Jasmine, Grace, Rosie