Picking Up Pieces

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"Rhyming owls" by NomadWarMachine is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

Patterns exist everywhere. We live by recognizing when stuff fits patterns and learn when stuff doesn't. Texts are no different.

Teaching students to analyze text structure help establish a purpose for reading and creates a mental model to aid in comprehension.
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Objectives: =====

  * Create a screencast to teach students how to annotate a text for text structure
  * Identify strategies to use text structure to improve comprehension
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Tasks =====



====== Read ====== 


Meyer, B. J., & Ray, M. N. (2017). Structure strategy interventions: Increasing reading comprehension of expository text. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 4(1), 127-152.

But annotate this week specifically for elements of text structure, main ideas, headings, signal words, transitions, etc.
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Write =====

What is the shape of your story
 
===== Participate =====

Participate in the Discussion on MSFT Teams. 
Make a video teaching and then modeling how you annotate a text for text structure
Submit a rough draft of a text structure lesson plan.