How a Scene Fits the Whole Story

Post the signal word chart from Signal Words for Text Structure while students work on Name the Text Structure. Save the bats article and the garden story for longer reading time.

Explain how 3 scenes of Saturdays at the Garden and 3 stanzas of a maple tree poem fit together. Writers build a story out of scenes and a poem out of stanzas, and each part has a job in the whole, such as setting up a problem or showing a change. The directions on the page read: Read the story. Then answer the questions on page 2. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade comprehension exercises, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with identifying text structure. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Description, sequence, compare and contrast, cause and effect and problem and solution. Name the Text Structure has students circle one for each of 6 paragraphs, from making paper by hand to Mae Jemison's life.

However and unlike signal compare and contrast, first and finally signal sequence, and as a result signals cause and effect. Signal Words for Text Structure sorts 15 of them into 5 columns.

Yes. How a Scene Fits the Whole Story explains the 3 scenes of Saturdays at the Garden and the stanzas of The Maple Outside My Window.