Week 11 Assignment #3

Reflection on Teaching Expository Text Structures to Facilitate Reading Comprehension

The entire point of expository text is to inform, or teach the reader. The author of the text will use structure in his or her thinking. It is therefore crucial for the reader to be able to understand the structure in order to follow the authors line of thought and to comprehend the text! Like everything in reading comprehension, the more the reader can focus on understanding the text, and not trying to decipher structure, the more the reader will be able to understand. 

A great tool for aiding in teaching students how to think about text structure is a graphic organizer!, which segways into the next part of the assignment : mini-lesson plans using graphic organizers!

Mini Lessons

 1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yGbpeQrUeFfIBYEcIHYPvuY5R7FuvUoUiE1hZJuW3jY/edit?usp=sharing

2. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nCsJZdUS72dvMIpQ9c6rDqiG3s-uLBZyO3AO2K73590/edit?usp=sharing

3. https://docs.google.com/document/d/10bbdBus32OIw0IsvXGzi264ZpZ_b4vAN-vWkjRcFmUQ/edit?usp=sharing