This engaging and fun nonfiction text structures project teaches the five structures and provides students with a meaningful project for modeling and practice. It can be used as a work station, in interactive notebooks, with small groups, or as an at home project.

HOW THIS NONFICTION TEXT STRUCTURES PROJECT WILL HELP YOUR STUDENTS:

Students learn how to use text features to learn information from nonfiction books. Students use the first seven pages for learning about each nonfiction text structure. Then, they pull the information together, practice reading paragraphs to determine the structure, work with texts (book list provided), write a sample for each structure, and summarize their learning. Again, you can use the pages in the book as displayed or in your interactive notebooks. The nonfiction text structures project also work well in small groups and as a pair/share activity.

HOW IS THE NONFICTION TEXT STRUCTURES PROJECT IS ORGANIZED?

The nonfiction text structures project includes the following components:

• Cover
• The Scoop on Text Structures
• Breaking Down Structures
• Anchor chart for Description, Sequential, Compare/Contrast, Cause/Effect, and Problem/Solution
• Sorting Examples
• Identifying structures in nonfiction texts (2 books from list)
• Writing Examples for each structure
• Summarizing Your Learning
• Grading Rubric

OTHER COMPREHENSION FOCUSED PAPER BAG BOOK PROJECTS:

• Exploring Theme
• Fact and Opinion? Can You Decide?
• Narrative Elements
• Synonyms and Antonyms
• Making Inferences
• Cause and Effect Relationships
• Drawing Conclusions
• Point of View
• Summarizing
• Main Idea
• Characterization
• Nonfiction Text Features

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WHAT TEACHERS HAVE HAD TO SAY ABOUT MY COMPREHENSION PROJECTS:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Deena K. says, “This is awesome!!!! I LOVE IT! I wish I would have found this before we did our Text Structure Unit. On the bright side…..I’ll have it for future teaching!!!! Thanks!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ DeeDee C.says, “This is such an original idea! My students enjoyed this and learned a lot at the same time!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Schoolhouse Treasures (TpT Seller) says, “This looks great and has many uses! I can’t wait to use with my class. Thanks! ”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Megan S. says “Excellent resource! I would recommend to others. Students were engaged and were able to demonstrate their knowledge of fact and opinion. I might suggest adding an answer page for the key word sort as we had a lot of disagreement and discussion about these words. Thank you for a great resource!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Antoinette N. says “What an enjoyable way to learn about and remember the various text structures. Thank you so much!”

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