How to teach Text Structures to Middle School Students - Overview

Teach text structures to your middle schoolers to improve literacy skills. Link to Workshop: https://www.teach2write.com/tsworkshop Help students to recognize cause/effect, description, compare/contrast and other informational text structures. I discuss the difference between text features and text structures as well as how to introduce and use text structures in your classroom. This is more of an overview than a deep dive into each text structure, and its more for teachers who want to improve literacy skills at the middle school level, but need more support on ways to accomplish that. Although my channel focuses mainly on writing, I do talk about reading as well. 02:30 Text Features vs. Text Structures - how to explain to students using the metaphor of a house 03:45 Text structures explained 04:35 Organization patterns of text 05:31 The 5 Basic Informational Text Structures 06:00 Description 07:03 Sequence of Events 07:23 Compare/Contrast 07:43 Cause/Effect 08:13 Problem/Solution 08:40 List of 5 Structures for Students 08:50 Graphic Organizers 10:03 Example of Compare/Contrast Activity 10:44 Text Structures Detectives Workshop Explained Link to Workshop: https://www.teach2write.com/tsworkshop Link to website: https://www.teach2write.com Link to Teacherspayteachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/S...