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Understanding Text Structure for Comprehension

The document discusses the importance of understanding text structure when reading. It can help readers organize information, make connections between details, and summarize important points. Common text structures include description, sequence, comparison, and cause and effect.

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Understanding Text Structure for Comprehension

The document discusses the importance of understanding text structure when reading. It can help readers organize information, make connections between details, and summarize important points. Common text structures include description, sequence, comparison, and cause and effect.

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TEXT

STRUCTURE

LESSON 2
MELC:
• At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:

• Use knowledge of text structure to glean (or extract, gather)


the information he/she needs
LET’S CHECK YOUR ANSWERS:
1. Go over Revise, review

2. Show Demonstrate, indicate, illustrate


Commence, initiate, undertake
3. Begin
Satisfactorily, positive, favourable
4. Good
consider, monitor, analyse
5. Look at
a great deal of, many
6. A lot of
Somewhat, fairly
7. A bit of
solve, repair, amend
8. Fix
confirm, determine
9. Make sure
reasonable
10. Quite good
COMMON TEXT STRUCTURES

• Text structures (WDPI, 2012) refer to the way authors


organize information in text. Recognizing the
underlying structure of texts can help students focus
attention on key concepts and relationships, anticipate
what is to come, and monitor their comprehension as
they read.
does the author
reach about these
items?
WHY IS TEXT STRUCTURE
I M P O R TA N T ?
The readers can significantly improve their comprehension and
retention of information when they can identify and recognize the text
structure of a text. It can also help them:
1. Organize information and details they are learning in their minds while
reading.
2. Make connections between the details being presented in a text
3. Summarize the important details shared in a text
ACTIVITY 2. DIRECTION: CLASSIFY THE SIGNAL WORDS
GIVEN BELOW BASED ON HOW THEY ARE USED.

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