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TASK 11. Identifying Expository Structures

Students’ reading comprehension skills improve when they acquire knowledge of texts’ structural development and use them properly. The most common expository text structures include description, enumerative or listing, sequence, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and problem solution.

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  • TASK 1. Wrestle with the Argument
  • TASK 10. Question the Author
  • TASK 11. Identifying Expository Structures
  • TASK 12. Read and Watch (Or Read and Look)
  • TASK 13. Form/Content/Context
  • TASK 14. Students vs Wordle/Vocabgrabber
  • TASK 15. Word Matrix
  • TASK 16. Speech
  • TASK 17. White Out
  • TASK 18. Sow, Sew, So What?
  • TASK 19. Comparative Analysis
  • TASK 2. One Sentence Summaries
  • TASK 20. Save the Last Word
  • TASK 21. Acrostic Poem
  • TASK 22. Structured Academic Controversy
  • TASK 23. Identifying Claim/Evidence
  • TASK 24. QFT (Question Formulation Technique)
  • TASK 25. Document Analysis/Sourcing
  • TASK 3. Unpack the Points
  • TASK 4. Explicit Vocabulary Sheet
  • TASK 5. Word Choice Matters
  • TASK 6. Word Wall
  • TASK 7. Close Reading - Focus Question
  • TASK 8. Analyze and Compare Author Purpose
  • TASK 9. Close Reading: Rhetorical Devices
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