Did you know? Research suggests reading comprehension increases when students understand text structures (the way authors organize their writing). Additionally, other comprehension-based skills such as summarizing, inferring, elaborating, and applying are also enhanced.

Here's a simple yet fun way to assess what your kids know about text structures!

Students read ten different mini paragraphs about snow and winter, identifying the structure used to write each one. Then they color in the images according to their answers.

Structures used: description, cause and effect, sequence and order, compare and contrast, problem and solution.

This product is really versatile: it can be used as a review, quick assessment, re-teach/remediation, in a reading center, on sub days, with partners or alone. Easy enough to self-grade simply by comparing their colored-in design to the answer key!

For easy distance learning, this product has been intentionally packaged including a file of just the student pages. Now when you post your assignments, you can send only what the students need to have!

Here's what's inside the zip file:

• Intro and teacher notes
• Student pages with clear directions
• Answer key
• Bonus file of just student pages in a .pdf

Here's why you'll love this product:

"...Reading about the same topic organized different ways really helped my students to understand the difference between them..." --buyer


There are 12 other products in this series, if you're interested in more for your students. Each one contains unique paragraphs written expressly for this series:

GoKarts
Basketball
Baseball
SnowSkiing
Tacos
Pizza
Hamburgers
Cake
Candy
Salad
Ninjas
Zombies

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