Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Teaching text structure can help.

Students are taught the five basic text structures (sequence, comparison, cause-effect, description, and problem-solution; Meyer, 1975), along with linguistic signals (clue words such as but ...

Moreover, the research in native English reading has shown that explicit teaching of various aspects of text structure can facilitate first language reading. This article reports a controlled training ...

Teaching in Room 9 Nonfiction Text Structures: Sequencing | 3rd Grade Reading Special | 27m 53s | CC In this lesson, students will review sequencing. Then they will listen to a read-aloud of the ...

Research clearly shows both the importance of using a plan to compose structurally sound text and the benefits to the reader of such text. The Structured-text Evaluation Procedure (STEP) standardizes ...