Day 66: 12/15/25 - Text Structure: Review & Practice

Homeroom:

Good Morning, I hope you are all having a great day. Please use this time to get ready for your day.

Do Now:

1. Check that your homework is done
2. Check to see if you have all your materials
3. Sharpen pencils

ELA:

Today we will identify the text structure used to create a variety of passages, and then continue with our independent reading.

Do Now:

• Write tonight's Independent work in your agenda
• Pick up a copy of the Text structure Practice (Level 1)
• Open your notebooks to page 31

Independent Work:

• Read for 20 minutes
• Complete Week 4 Day #5 of your reading log (Reading Logs are due Tomorrow) 

Activity #1

Review of Text Structure

&

Practice Identifying Text Structure

Review Page 31

Warm up:
What text structure would you use if you wanted to write about each of the following scenarios? 

• Wildfires, and how to prevent them from happening
• Campfires vs wild fires
• A time that I got burned by a fire and had to go to the hospital
• Campfires
• A time that I built a campfire

• Snowboarding
• The time I went Snowboarding at Holiday Valley
• Snowboarding vs. Skiing
• Joining ski club but not knowing how to ski, and taking lessons from a ski instructor to solve the problem
• The time I broke my snowboard and had to go buy a new one

Directions for Level 1 Practice:

1. Work in groups of 3. Read each passage
2. Use your notebook to determine what text structure was used to craft each.
3. Record your answer on the line.
4. You may underline or annotate the passage to help you
5. When you are done with level 1 raise your hand to get your answers checked. I will tell you how many you have correct. Then you have an opportunity to re-evaluate your responses and make changes if needed. 
6. Once you are happy with the changes, go to my google classroom and open the "Evaluating text structure" activity.
7. Start by recording your responses for the level 1 questions. (#1-5)
8. Then go onto level 2 and repeat the process.

This is Level 1

This is level 2 

Wrap up:

• Which level was harder, level 1 or level 2?
• What passage(s) did you struggle with? How did you ultimately figure it out?
• What passages were the easiest? What made them easy for you?

Tomorrow you will have your assessment on identifying text structure where you will have to work independently.

Activity #2

Independent Reading

Directions:

• Read for 20 minutes 
• This is a quiet reading time. You may spread out but it is expected for you to read for the entire 20 minutes. 
• Complete your reading log 
• Be sure to write down what happened in that day's reading. Focus on Characters, Setting, Plot, & Conflict
• Complete the "Word of the Week" portion of your reading log 
• Remember to use the Word central link from my blog to help you