Page 1 is a text about beavers in four sections, each built a different way, and page 2 is a table to name each section's structure, with questions on what happened and why. Pages 3 to 6 each hold a short text built on one structure, with its questions. Page 7 matches each structure to its signal words, and page 8 works with any nonfiction text.
Make an anchor chart of the five structures and their signal words. As partners read, they hunt for signal words with a highlighter, then decide which structure the words point to.
When you read a news story or a recipe together, ask your child how it is organized: in steps, by causes and effects, by a problem and its fix, or by comparing.
Short texts about beavers, butterflies and moths, bears, honeybees and elephants, written at a 4th grade level, each built on one structure. Children name each text's structure, find the words that signal it, and explain what happens and why.
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