Name: ______Block: ____ Text Features and Structures B: Stations

Name: ______Block: ____ Text Features and Structures B: Stations

Station #1 – Picture Books

Directions: Choose one book to read\survey. Note: You may not have enough time to read the longer texts. Determine the text structure your picture book best represents and fill out the Station #1 portion of your answer sheet.

Book Title:
Text Structure:
Evidence:

Station #2 – Determining Text Structure

Directions: Read each passage. On the Station #2 portion of your answer sheet, write down the text structure, key words and evidence from the text.

Text Structure / Explanation
Passage #1 / Key Words:
Evidence:
Passage #2 / Key Words:
Evidence:
Passage #3 / Key Words:
Evidence:
Passage #4 / Key Words:
Evidence:

Station # 3 – Putting Events in Chronological Order

Directions: First, check your work against the answer key for station #2. Work as a group and ask each other questions on items you are not sure about.

Then, spread out your story strips carefully. Read through them and use signal words and logic to put the story into chronological order. Check your work against a partner. There is an answer key, if needed. Be sure to clean up carefully.

Station #4 – Completing a Graphic Organizer

Directions: Read the passage below. Choose which graphic organizer would be the best choice to present the information given. There are samples in the center. Then draw an organizer in the space provided on your answer sheet. When you are finished, check your work against someone in your group who has the same passage.

Tornados and Hurricanes
Hurricanes and tornados are both amazing yet deadly natural phenomena. Both generate deadly conditions, but in different ways. Tornados are likely to damage people and property with their high winds, which go up to 300 miles per hour, but hurricanes are generally more feared for their flooding. Also, hurricanes can produce tornados, which makes them quite dangerous indeed.

DRAW YOUR OWN GRAPHIC ORGANIZER HERE

Station #5 – Text Features

Directions: Take a science textbook and use it to answer all 10 questions. When there are two minutes remaining on the timer, stop working and check your answers against each other’s.

1. Turn to page 205. From what two languages, do most scientific names come from?

2. What is the Latin word for king? ______

3. Under what subheading did you find the previous answer? ______

4. Turn to page 289. Why is the damselfly stuck? ______

5. What text feature did you use to answer the previous question? ______

6. Turn to page 379. Name two other types of cartilaginous fish besides sharks:

7. Turn to page 395. At what time of day is the ground temperature the warmest? ______

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8. At about what time are Organism A and B’s body temperature the same? ______

9. What is the body temperature of Organism A and B when they are the same? ______

10. Turn to page 531. How many more muscles does it take to frown than to smile? You must THINK to answer this question. ______

Station #6 – Analyzing Text Structures

Directions: Read Passage A and B. Write down the text structure and signal words used in each passage.

Text Structure / Key Words
Passage #A / Key Words:
Passage #B / Key Words:

Think about why the authors chose these particular structures in the above passages. Now, explain why authors use different text structures to convey different messages, using evidence from the passages above.

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*Discuss answers with your group. Do not leave today without being confident in your ability to answer a question like this!