1. Reading comprehension standard 2.1
Learning Objective: Identify text structures in expository texts
Reading comprehension standard 2.1
Do gestures with students. Open one hand for compare and another hand for contrast and ask students to repeat

2. What are we Identifying today?
Text Structures in Expository text.
CFU: Call on non volunteer
Remind students that a text structure is how an author organizes his passages

3. The Importance of knowing text structures
Good readers use a variety of strategies to help them comprehend.
Read the importance and have students offer other reasons: call on volunteers

4. Expository Text
Expository: give information Share with your partner the last text that you read that gave you information?
Give definition of expository text and have students partner share

5. tell the result of an event or occurrence and the reasons it happened.
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Sequence
Proposition and Support (main idea and supporting details)
tell the result of an event or occurrence and the reasons it happened.
Ex: Cause: There was a bad storm
Effect: The electricity went out
Compares and contrast information
Ex: How animals interact with humans
is a passage that show the order in which events happen.
Ex: Biography of a person’s life. Or
Explains how to do something
Ex: How to break a code
states a plan or an idea (proposition) followed by information to prove that the plan or idea is right or good (and that is the support).
Example: Parts of a plant
Consequently, therefore, as a result, thereby, leads to, because, so, reason
On the other hand, in contrast, in comparison, both, like, different, similar, in the same way
Time Order: First, Then, Next, Finally, Yesterday, Today
Time Order Expression: After that, later on , In the Morning
For example, in addition, also. Furthermore, for instance, most important, after, near, to begin with
Provide definition of text structure- The way a passage is organized
Tell students definition of compare and contrast text structures and its signal words
Ask students to share with partners what can readers expect when reading and compare and contrast text
Have students partner share and call on non volunteer
What are some signal words
Have students partner share
Call on non volunteers

6. Posing and Answering Questions - is a way of giving information by first asking a question. After the question is asked, an answer is given.
Posing a question – The writer asks a question (usually a rhetorical question)
Who was the first President of the United States?
Answering a question- The writer provides an answer to the question asked
The first President of the United States was George Washington.
George Washington is often referred to as the father of his country.
George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 that is when we celebrate President’s Day.
Concept development
CFU: What is a proposition? p/s
What is support? p/s
Which statement is the proposition? How do you know
Which statement is the support? How do you know
prett

7. How do we identify text structures?
Make poster
Step 1: Read the Expository text
Step 2: Identify signal/clue words
Skill development
Review each step of identifying text structures and apply steps
Step 3: Ask yourself does the text compare and contrast, sequence, proposition and support, cause and effect

8. How do we identify text structures?
Step 1: Read the Expository text
Step 2: Identify signal/clue words
Step 3: Ask yourself does the text compare and contrast, sequence, proposition and support, cause and effect
Passage
Text Structure
Different types of clouds have their own appearance. For example, some are wispy and thin and others are fluffy and shapely. Some people think cumulus clouds look like puffs of cotton.
Compare and Contrast
Skill development
Review each step of identifying text structures and apply steps

9. Posing and answering? YES NO
Step 1 : Read the text carefully
Step 2: Look for posing and answering the question
Step 3: Look for sentence(s) that provide the answer
Step 4: Circle yes if the text is posing and answering questions and no if it is not
Paragraph 1
1 Submarines are used today to explore shipwrecks. 2. How will submarines be used in the future? 3. In the future, tourist submarines can be used. 4. People can travel by submarine to see the wonders that live under the sea.
Skill development
Posing and answering? YES NO
How do you know?
prett

10. Identifying Text Structures
Passage
Text Structure
It was 32 degrees Fahrenheit when precipitation fell from the clouds. Since it was freezing, the precipitation was in the form of snow.
Clouds can cause turbulence for airplanes, so consequently pilots may try to fly above them to avoid the shaking.
All clouds are made of water droplets. Fog, however, is a different type of cloud. The difference is that fog forms on the ground and the other clouds form high in the air.
Clouds are formed in the following way. First, water on the ground evaporates and turns into vapor. Next, the vapor condenses into tiny droplets and forms clouds. Finally, the clouds lose the water in the form of precipitation.
Identifying Text Structures
Proposition and Support
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Allow students to practice with partners
Make sure they complete the steps
Have students use whites board to show answers
Sequence

11. Closure
Pencils and chalk are both writing utensils. They are different because we use pencils to write on paper and chalk to write on blackboards.
2.I went to the park because I wanted to play basketball.
3. Sarah and Jimmy are the same because they are both in the 4th grade. But Sarah enjoys reading. On the other hand, Jimmy enjoys math.
Closure
Three types of questions
What type of text structure did we learn how to identify today?
An importance question: Why is it important to learn how to identify compare and contrast structure in expository text?
Tell students: Lets review some just to make sure we have a good understanding of what we learned today! Please take out your whiteboards (white boards should already be put along with pens at the top corner of their desk)