Teaching Resource
Informative Text Structure Sorting Task - The Apple iPad
A sorting task to help students learn about informative text structure.
Use this teaching resource to reinforce the structural features of an informative text.
Students cut out and read each paragraph of the informative text, The Apple iPad. They must then glue each paragraph into the correct row of the scaffold table provided, under the following headings:
- title
- introduction
- description (appearance)
- description (features)
- description (adaptations)
- conclusion.
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 4-5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

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