The article, How to
Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Reading Comprehension focuses
on how important it is to train students on text structure knowledge. This in turn will improve reading achievement
overall. Also, focusing more on text features
will help readers to locate and organize information in the text, connect to
background knowledge, and finally store it in long term memory. The main expository text structures are:
description, sequence, compare/contrast, cause/effect, and
problem/solution. According to Tompkins
(1998), the text structures should be taught in a certain manner: 1) Introduce
the organizational pattern 2) Give students opportunities to work on text, and 3)Have students write paragraphs using each
text structure pattern. It is imperative
for readers to use signal words and phrases as a clue to recognize the
structure of the text.
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