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Exploring Text Structures

Last
Friday, I shared some great text feature work that the fourth graders at Kennedy
School in Billerica, MA were doing. But the truth is those students have been
busy, busy, busy immersing themselves in nonfiction projects.

After
reading my book No Monkeys, No Chocolate,
the students made book maps to get a stronger sense of the architecture of the main text, which has what I call a cumulative sequence structure (my
mentor texts were traditional cumulative tales, such as The House that Jack Built and I
Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.)

Then
each child chose one example from the text and rewrote it with a cause and
effect text structure.

Here
are some close ups:

 

Wow,
what a terrific idea!


Doesn’t this student work blow you away? I’m so impressed
with the fourth grade writers at Kennedy School.

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