Text Structure Lesson and Activities Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Crew

Let’s make finding text structure fun and exciting! Try the Comprehension Crew for teaching text structures and practicing with engaging activities. Your students will be begging to learn more reading strategies!

This resource includes everything you need to introduce and teach the 5 text structures- cause and effect, sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and description to your students. It also provides a consistent framework for continuous reinforcement and application of the skill with any text and with all future lessons.

Teagan the Text Structure Manager will help you teach identifying the text structure to your students in a way they will truly understand and internalize. Teagan helps readers to realize which text structure is used in the text. Then she shows them how that organizational tool helps them to navigate the information given in the text.

This resource introduces concrete ways for students to interact with the reading skill through this character representation. This lesson format can be applied to any book over and over again! There are a variety of activities included in this resource for your students to practice finding the text structure. Google slides versions are available!

*download the preview to learn more about the Comprehension Crew program

The resource includes the following:

Character Posters & Visual Aids
Character Profile- includes character profession, prop, gesture, phrase, likes, and how they help reader
Concrete Text Structure Activity
Introduction & Modeling Text Structure Lesson Plan- can be applied to any book
Teacher Implementation Tips
Graphic Organizers- 30 differentiated options for any text
Flip Books- 4 options that can be used with any text
Interactive Notebook
Task Cards with Photographs- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
Task Cards with Short Text- includes answer key and differentiated answer sheets
Practice Text Structure Passages- differentiated texts and scaffolded response options with answer keys included one for each type of text structure
Mentor Text Suggestions – includes a wide variety of picture books and wordless picture books

What is the Comprehension Crew?

Comprehension Crew is a group of characters each representing an essential reading skill. Each character has a profession, gesture, and prop that provide a concrete representation of the reading skill. These characters are used to model and reinforce each skill both in life and in text. The character helps students to understand, remember, and intentionally apply skills as they are reading.

Who are the other Comprehension Crew characters?

determining importance
main idea
text features
text structure
vocabulary
inferencing
questioning
predicting
summarizing
clarifying
connecting- TRY FOR FREE!
synthesizing
evaluating
visualizing
theme

Teacher Reviews

2nd/ 3rd grade teacher Misty said, “This is a great resource for my small groups! It is easy to use as a resource teacher that is always on the run.”

1st grade teacher Kaitlin said, “My students loved this resource. It was a great and easy tool to use in stations as a review of our learning!”

If you have any questions about this resource or how to best use it in your classroom, I am happy to help! Please email me at [email protected] or Instagram message me at Lessons_by_the_lake. Thank you!