Barbara Yardley

Understanding text structures is an important reading skill because it aids comprehension of informational texts. Get middle school students started understanding and analyzing Text Structures and Organizations with this engaging PowerPoint presentation. Presentation addresses the five most common structures: : description, chronological, cause/effect, compare/contrast, and problem/solution. Examples and teacher instructions are included. Aligned to Common Core ELA-Literacy Standards: RI.6.1, 7.

Reading is thinking! If you want to help your students improve their reading comprehension skills this colorful PowerPoint presentation is just the ticket. Based on proven, research based techniques this presentation outlines how to apply basic reading strategies before, during and after reading, and introduces the acronym P.A.W.S. to help students remember what to do before they begin reading. An invaluable tool, the slide show includes teacher presentation notes, references, and plenty of memo

Before students can accurately summarize and analyze a text, they must be able to identify a story’s central conflict. An understanding of that central struggle is integral to understanding a work’s overriding themes. (Common Core Reading Anchor Standards 2 and 5) This powerful, interactive PowerPoint presentation is designed to instruct middle and high school students how to quickly identify the core conflicts of literary pieces to ensure accurate summarization and structural analysis. Student