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Science Subject Week 3

The document outlines a lesson plan for 6th-grade students focusing on identifying text structures in informational texts. It introduces four common structures: chronological, cause and effect, problem and solution, and compare and contrast, emphasizing their importance in enhancing reading comprehension, information retrieval, writing clarity, and critical thinking. Students will practice recognizing these structures while reading a science text and organizing the information accordingly.

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Science Subject Week 3

The document outlines a lesson plan for 6th-grade students focusing on identifying text structures in informational texts. It introduces four common structures: chronological, cause and effect, problem and solution, and compare and contrast, emphasizing their importance in enhancing reading comprehension, information retrieval, writing clarity, and critical thinking. Students will practice recognizing these structures while reading a science text and organizing the information accordingly.

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6th

Grade
Identifying
text structures
Identifying text structures in Informational text
Lesson Objectives
• Students will be introduced to four common text
structures and will practice identifying and organizing
information from a science text using those structures.
Hook
If you touch a metal spoon in hot soup, what
happens?

What about a wooden spoon?

Today we’ll look at how texts explain science


ideas, and how they’re organized using different
Text Structure
Why learn this?
● We learn about text structures like chronological, cause and effect,
problem and solution, and compare and contrast because they help us
become better readers, writers, and thinkers.
🌟 Why We Learn About Text Structures: 🔍 Quick Breakdown of Each:
1. They help us understand what we read more easily. • Chronological Order:
Knowing how a text is organized helps us follow the Events are told in the order they happened (like a timeline
author's ideas and remember important details. or story).
2. They help us find information faster. 👉 We use it in storytelling, history, instructions, etc.
For example, if we're reading to find a problem and how it • Cause and Effect:
Shows why something happened and what happened as
was solved, we know exactly where to look!
a result.
3. They help us write more clearly. 👉 Great for science, history, and explaining relationships.
Understanding these structures helps us plan our own • Problem and Solution:
writing and organize our ideas. Presents a problem and then explains how it was solved.
4. They improve critical thinking. 👉 Useful in persuasive writing, essays, and nonfiction
We learn to see how events connect, how ideas are articles.
similar or different, and how problems are solved. • Compare and Contrast:
Shows how two or more things are alike and different.
👉 Used in essays, research, and decision-making
Read and Organize
As we read, we’re going to look for which structure is being used in each paragraph and organize
the information.

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