Analyzing text

Free resource for any grade!! Check it out… Prompts for developing your students’ higher order thinking skills…analyzing and synthesizing fiction & nonfiction texts. Perfect …

How are you doing with teaching non-fiction, informational texts? Do you feel you have a good grasp on expository text structures? With the Common Core ELA standards, students are expected to be proficient in reading complex informational texts. State assessments are also becoming more non-fiction focused, to evaluate student abilities in navigating these complex texts. So what can we do to help our students meet these standards? The purpose of this post is to provide a few resources for…

How do you teach literary analysis? By using strategies that scaffold the process. Try these engaging classroom-tested strategies from Room 213.

Learn tips and strategies to teach text dependent analysis in upper elementary classes. These teaching strategies will get you and your class ready for analyzing text effectively. Don't forget to download the free TDA prompts!

Teaching your students how to analyze text can be easy with tips from ROOM 213. She's got some close reading bookmarks to share too!

If your students struggle to analyze text, use these strategies from ROOM 213 to build the habit of speaking & writing in literary terms

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Whether one's school has adopted Common Core or not, all teachers can agree that students should deepen their understanding about what they read. This holds true for text structure as well. As students begin to look at text at deeper levels, one of the first thing that they learn is organizational text structures. Comparison and contrast, problem and solution, classification, sequence, and cause and effect are just a few of these formats. After students get a firm understanding about these…

If you are looking for a way to help students interpret and explain what they read, this free resource will help. I love to use sentence starters with students. After a short time, students are able to write without any support. Why is this important? There is a greater push to encourage students to go beyond summarizing. Being able to interpret what is read sets a strong foundation for later grade levels and helps students comprehend what they read.Click Here to Access It For additional…