Elementary School TeachersTeacher SurveysAccuracyReliabilityMixed Methods ResearchTest ConstructionExpository WritingTrainingFaculty DevelopmentThere has been no research reported about if or how well primary grade teachers can identify information text structures in children's authentic informational texts. The ...
Welcome to the Companion Website!"Finally, a resource that helps teachers build critical oral language foundations with nursery rhymes while teaching young students to practice writing with the same predictable language structures. The reciprocal power o
Williams, Hall, and Lauer (2004) examined learners as young as 2nd grade and discovered that instruction about specific expository structures (e.g., compare and contrast) helped elementary school learners better comprehend expository texts. The aforementioned studies appear to show an association betwee...
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Some structures include the simple problem and the solution, while others include adding the significance of the problem and the rationale for why the solution would solve the problem. Sometimes a single problem with its solution can be in one paragraph. At the same time, other structures have ...
All participants read two passages, written with distinct text structures used in text structure strategy (comparison and problem/solution), and wrote a recall for each. They then completed a brief survey. The hypotheses and all questions were examined by using results from the self-reported data...
The goal of this review is to explore the influence of reader and text characteristics in order to better understand the instructional needs of elementary school readers. First we review research which has examined the influence of two textual characteristics: the hierarchical organization of macro-...
Text structures can vary, and it's important for students to be familiar with the most common types. These include: Description Sequence/Chronological Compare and Contrast Cause and Effect Problem and Solution Spatial/Descriptive Main Idea and Supporting Details Question and Answer Make Your Own Ana...
Museums provide powerful possibilities for students to learn how history is written by authors who use informational structures, text features, and objects to craft a compelling story. In this study, we examined how preservice elementary teachers experienced a museum as an informational mentor text. ...
Text Structures. Text Structure: Description Definition: Author explains a topic idea, person, place or thing by listing characteristics, features, and. 5 TEXT STRUCTURES OF INFORMATIONAL TEXT. TEXT STRUCTURE How the information in a text is organized. ...