Week 12 Article Relection: How To Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Reading

How to Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Reading Comprehension Article Refection 

   Teaching students how to recognize the underlying structure of content areas such as expository text or explanatory text can help students focus their attention on key concepts and relationship anticipate what will come next as they read and what they write. They know how to monitor their comprehension as they read. Students need to understand and how to recognize text features and important skills teachers need to develop and students are how to actually build strong awareness text organization and structure. Text structures refer to the ways that authors organize information in a text. Students who enter kindergarten with print awareness and phonemic awareness have an advantage because they have some idea of what text structures and they have an advantage versus a student who is unaware or not exposed to literacy prior to kindergarten. As the student enters 3rd & 4th-grade comprehension text become rigorous (informational, historical nonfiction) and some teachers may not be teaching necessary reading organizational skills. There are multiple ways teachers can plan lessons using graphic organizers.

    Within the ELA reading comprehension track there exits common themes of reading and writing to respond to an expository text such as sequencing; where the author may use numerical or chronological order likewise, compare and contrast a student is given the task to compare two or more things. Then there is a cause and effect theme, the author describes one or more causes and the underlining effect always different subject areas. Graphic organizers are easily assessable tools support students to better understand textbook and picture books because it helps the students to focus on the text structure. Here’s a good example, Write an expository summary on the differences between Barack Obama v. Donald Trump. The student can use a Venn diagram graphic organizer to list the differences according to the first two years in office. The Venn diagram must list the similarities between them. Barack Obama was the first African American, Donald Trump was the first millionaire with no political experience. Obama net approval was 6.9 percent Trump, -16.3. Once the student is given this task, he is able to use the graphic organizers will help guide him to write a well-organized expository text or summary.
   
    Teachers can support reading patterns by modeling how to use text structures so that students can improve and make reading more enjoyable teaching structural elements as a skill in the lesson plan my modeling how to by way of anchor charts or uploaded mini-lessons on a Chromebook at the beginning of the school year will help support the students comprehension this way it teaches can I access what the students know where the student store now. I find that some students begin the year using graphic organizers that they to annotating the text identifying text features as they answer in short or by the extended response.