Lesson 2: Informational Text Structure
Duration of Days: 15
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to analyze how an author’s use of informational text structures informs and shapes the perception of readers.
- What are the author’s main ideas or claims?
- How are the author’s ideas and claims developed in larger portions of the texts?
- How are these claims or ideas developed and refined by particular sentences in the text?
- What specific sentences and paragraphs refine or develop the author’s overall claim or ideas?
- cause and effect text structure (noun)
- compare and contrast text structure (noun)
- problem and solution text structure (noun)
- sequential text structure (noun)
- text structure (noun)
RI.9-10.1
RI.9-10.2
SL.9-10.1.A
SL.9-10.1.C
SL.9-10.2
Reading for Information
DOK 1-3
- Visual glossary
- Speaking frames
- Annotation guides
- Complete the "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" First Read
- Complete the Informational Text Structure Skill
- Complete the "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail" Close Read