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Grade 3 English Language Arts · Level 6, Grade 4 Bridge — Introductory Independence

Bridge: Recognize Broader Text Structures

Begin identifying chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution structures across longer informational text.

How the lesson starts: Bridge: Recognize Broader Text Structures

1. Bolt the builder

   Meet Bolt, a robot architect. Every building has a hidden plan inside, called a blueprint. Texts have blueprints too! Each text plan has its own clue words. Let's learn them.

2. Bolt's cheat sheet

   Here is Bolt's cheat sheet. Time order uses first, next, and finally. Comparison uses both, however, and unlike. Cause and effect uses because and as a result. Problem and solution uses problem, tried, and solved.

3. Let's find the clue words

   Listen to Bolt's text. First, Bolt rolled three big snowballs. Next, he stacked them into walls. Then he packed snow in the cracks. Finally, he stuck a flag on top. The plan is time order. The clue words are first, next, then, and finally!