Middle School English Language Arts Instructional Guide

Standard: Reading 10

Learning Intentions and Success Criteria

Learning Intentions:

Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, and how it contributes to the text meaning. (RL & RI)

● To understand different structures authors use to organize texts. ● To analyze how the structure of a text contributes to its overall meaning. ● To evaluate the effectiveness of an author's organizational choices in conveying meaning. Success Criteria: ● I can identify the structure an author uses to organize a text. ● I can analyze how the organization of a text contributes to its meaning. ● I can explain the relationship between a text's structure and its meaning. ● I can evaluate the effectiveness of the author’s organizational choices.

Nouns (Know)

Verbs (Do)

● Text Structures ○ Description

● Analyze

○ Cause and Effect ○ Compare and Contrast ○ Problem and Solution ○ Sequence of Events

● Organization

Sample Question Stems and Prompts for Assessment

● "Which structure does the author use to organize this text?" ● "How does the structure of this text contribute to its overall meaning?" ● "What are some organizational patterns you recognize in the text?" ● "Why do you think the author chose this particular structure?" ● "How would the meaning of the text change if it were organized differently?"

Sample Formative Assessments

Structure-Meaning Refection Journal (RL & RI)

● Activity: Students keep a journal in which they refect on different texts they read, focusing on the structure and how it contributes to the meaning. For each entry, they should describe the structure, explain how it helps convey the text's meaning, and provide examples from the text. ● Objective: To evaluate students' refective thinking and their ability to connect text structure with meaning through regular, structured writing.

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