Text Structure Activities Bundle - Middle School ELA

This bundle includes four popular text structure activities: a text structure digital escape, a text structure sort, text structure practice with passages, and a self-grading digital text structure quiz. These text structure activities are a fun way to review a difficult concept. Often activities stop at having students identify text structure, but these ELA resources are more rigorous-analyzing the text structure, noticing the signal words, and thinking about the text structure development of a reading passage. These activities will support your middle schoolers reading comprehension and mastery of text structure.

These nonfiction text structure activities can be used for online, virtual, or distance learning.

Text structure activities focuses on the following structures:

•compare and contrast

•cause and effect

•problem and solution

•description

•chronological order

In the Text Structure Digital Escape lesson students must:

• •sort the definitions of each text structure
• •read nonfiction passages to determine the text structure
• •match graphic organizers to the text structure
• •match text structure signal phrases

In the Text Structure Sort, students are asked to sort:

• the text pattern definition
• key words or signal words
• graphic organizers
• a title for a type of writing
• a longer passage of each text structure

In the Text Structure Quiz, students demonstrate:

• knowledge of text structure in 15 question assessment
• could be used for text structure classwork
• includes terms, signal words, and short passages

In the Text Structure Worksheet, students:

• Read passages and determine text structure
• Includes 5 reading passages
• analyze text structure

New To Breakouts?

Digital breakouts are an amazing way to get students instantly engaged in your lesson! In a breakout students are using the content/information to breakout or gain access to the next level/task in the activity, often through solving puzzles or codes.

If you want to check out a free sample of a digital breakout before you buy, check here: Free Sample Digital Breakout

This breakout can be used with iPads, chrome books, laptops, desktops, as long as your students have access to Google Drive or Classroom on a device. The breakout is on a Google Form and students have links to activities that provide the codes to breakout.

Why Digital Breakouts?

•Saves precious prep time

•An innovative way to captivate students

•Immediately evaluate student success

Technology Requirements

•A Google Drive account

•If sharing with students, a Drive account that is linked to student Google accounts

•Can be shared/delivered on Google Classroom

•Only need access to Google Drive - no outside links to worry about

⚠️USE THIS FREE SAMPLE DIGITAL BREAKOUT Free Sample Digital Breakout TO SEE IF YOUR DISTRICT ALLOWS GOOGLE SLIDES FROM OUTSIDE OF THE DISTRICT. Some districts will now allow students to access a Google Slideshow that was created by a Google account outside of the district. I am not responsible if your district blocks these sites.⚠️

Customer review: This is one of the best purchases I have ever made on TPT. My students LOVED this activity and are begging for more! Seriously, could not have been easier to assign to them. Thank you so much! Looking forward to more!

⭐Text Structure Digital Breakout

⭐Text Structure Sort

⭐Text Structure Digital Quiz

⭐Annotating Text Stations

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