[Understand] text structures

[Beverlee Paul]

Ooooh, I really love this one!!  
 
Lots of kids who are used to a single "climax" of a story, and have drawn a schematic of that, also love it when the story gets too complex to do that and there are multiple peaks and valleys.  Do you lucky SmartBoard folk have anything special to plot a storyline?> From: CNJPALMER at aol.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:38:10 -0500> To: understand at literacyworkshop.org> Subject: [Understand] text structures> > I know Ellin believes it is important for students to understand how texts > are organized. A colleague and I are planning to use the analogy of a set of > stairs to help second graders understand the chronological text structure of > some simple biographies our students will be reading. We thought stairs show > that the order of ideas matters when making sense of this kind of text... and > how the ideas build...you see how the events in someone's life influence later > events and while you can "jump the steps" to look at just a certain time > period in someone's life, you need to read from beginning to end to get the full > picture of the significance of someone's life. Does that make sense?> > What do you all do to teach text structures with your students?> Jennifer> **************Inauguration '09: Get complete coverage from the nation's > capital. (http://news.aol.com/main/politics/inauguration?ncid=emlcntusnews00000003)> _______________________________________________> Understand mailing list> Understand at literacyworkshop.org> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/listinfo/understand_literacyworkshop.org
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