Topic: Text structure: chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution (RI.4.5). Adjust the settings, then copy the prompt.
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Prerequisite skills to check: text features and search tools such as headings and key words (RI.3.5); the logical connection between sentences and paragraphs, such as comparison, cause/effect and sequence (RI.3.8); main idea and key details (RI.4.2).
Key vocabulary: text structure, chronology, sequence, compare, contrast, cause, effect, problem and solution, signal words.
Warm-up idea: Give pairs four short paragraphs about the same topic, such as frogs: one in time order, one comparing frogs and toads, one about why frogs are disappearing, one about how a town protected a pond. Ask: same topic, so why do these feel so different?
Exit ticket idea: Students read two short informational passages, name the overall structure of each, underline two signal words that prove it, and sketch a matching graphic organizer such as a timeline, Venn diagram, cause-effect chain or problem-solution chart.
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