Tips for Teaching Non Fiction Text Structure in Upper Elementary

How do you feel about teaching non-fiction to your students? I think teachers either love it or hate it, but regardless of how you feel about it, it's important that our students have strategies to help them understand non-fiction.

Some of the big takeaways form this video include:
✔ Text structure provides a roadmap for our students to understand the text.
✔ Most comprehension skills connect back to text structure.
✔ When students can identify the structure of a non-fiction text, they are set up to be able to use a variety of other comprehension skills.
✔ Digging deep into text structure gives students the tools to comprehend any informational text.

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