The Nonfiction Text Structure: Comparison and Contrast Bundle includes three integrated reading and writing lessons perfect for teaching middle school students the nonfiction text structure: comparison and contrast. Through guided notes, teacher modeling, and independent practice, students understand and apply the concept of nonfiction text structure when reading, summarizing, and writing informational and explanatory texts that are organized using the comparison and contrast text structure. This resource includes editable slides, no-prep teacher models, practice worksheets, graphic organizers, and paragraph frames.

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Introduction to Nonfiction Text Structure: Comparison and Contrast
This lesson begins with an introduction to nonfiction text structures and how they how they help us as readers and writers of informational and explanatory texts. (Click here for a free sample of the introductory mini-lesson.) Students complete a note catcher as they learn to recognize and identify the comparison and contrast structure through a definition, key questions, example topics, signal words and phrases, and graphic organizers. 40 teaching slides, two note-taking sheets with differentiated guided notes, three paragraph frames, and four graphic organizers for reading and writing comparison and contrast nonfiction texts are included in this resource.

Reading and Summarizing Nonfiction: Comparison and Contrast
This lesson teaches students a simple three-step process for reading and summarizing a nonfiction text. Students learn to identify signal words and phrases, complete a graphic organizer, and use a paragraph frame to write a summary of a nonfiction text. 37 teaching slides with no-prep teacher modeling and a two-page worksheet for independent practice are included in this resource. (Click here for a free sample of the graphic organizers.)

Nonfiction Paragraph Writing: Comparison and Contrast
This lesson teaches students a simple three-step process for writing a short informational or explanatory text using the nonfiction text structure: comparison and contrast. Students brainstorm and select a topic, fill out a graphic organizer, and complete a paragraph frame (or use a menu of signal words and phrases) to compose a comparison and contrast paragraph. 44 teaching slides with ready-to-go writing models and a two-page worksheet for independent practice are included in this resource. (Click here for a free sample of the paragraph frames.)

These lessons are designed for middle school students.
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Please Note: The introductory slides, graphic organizers, and paragraph frames are the same across all three lessons. This is to support the integration of reading and writing and to emphasize how the concept of text structure and the use of signal words, graphic organizers, and paragraph frames applies to both reading and writing. This redundancy is reflected in the deeply discounted bundle price.

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