Nonfiction Text Structures Lesson: Anchor Chart, Practice Passages, Notebook

📚 Teaching Nonfiction Text Structures? This Interactive Lesson Has You Covered!

Make your upper elementary nonfiction lessons more interactive, explicit, and meaningful with this ready-to-use Nonfiction Text Structure Lesson. Designed for 3rd–5th grade learners, this three-part lesson gives you everything you need to confidently teach the five main nonfiction text structures with zero prep beyond printing!

🧠 Focus Text Structures Included:

✔️ Sequence

✔️ Compare & Contrast

✔️ Cause & Effect

✔️ Problem & Solution

✔️ Description

📦 What’s Inside the PDF:

• Step-by-step lesson instructions
• Printable passages for group sorting by structure
• Materials to create a collaborative anchor chart
• Hands-on Interactive Notebook entry pages for student reference
• Tips for prepping clipboards & organizing the activity efficiently

🏫 Lesson Breakdown:

1. Anchor Chart Creation – Build understanding together with visual support.
2. Text Structure Sorting – Read and sort the included passages in small groups.
3. Notebook Entry – Students synthesize what they’ve learned in a meaningful, visual way.

✨ Why Teachers Love It:

• Ready to go—just print and teach!
• Perfect for whole group or small group instruction
• Highly interactive and keeps students engaged
• Reinforces comprehension of informational texts
• Creates a helpful reference tool for students to revisit all year