Wondering how to make nonfiction structures fun? Use this collaborative, active activity to get your students out of their seats and identifying nonfiction text structures "in the wild"! Students work in groups to examine six different articles and identify the different text structures using signal clues. Then, students will analyze how those structures helped to build the article's ideas.

*Note: Articles are not included as I believe students will be most engaged in articles dealing with current events and popular issues. However, I used free articles downloaded from Newsela (plus, then they are in your students' Lexile range!).