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Text Elements and Structures

These passages reinforce various types of text elements such as headings, titles, captions and others.

Martin Luther King - Main Idea and Supporting Details

Description: This fun activity requires students to categorize the supporting details with the correct main ideas (headings). Then, students must order the sentences properly.

Harriet Tubman Topic Sentence and Supporting Details

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

Ferdinand Magellan - Main Idea and Supporting Sentences

Description: Below are three headings at the beginnings of paragraphs. Below the chart are the associated supporting detail sentences. Which sentences would appear under which heading? Use the numbers before the sentences so you don’t have to write the entire sentence. Order matters!

Christopher Columbus Topic Sentence and Supporting Details

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

Marco Polo Topic Sentence and Supporting Details

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

Dr. Anthony Fauci Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sentences

Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are nine total sentences.

Benjamin Franklin Topic Sentence and Supporting Details

Description: This activity requires students to determine which sentences belong in the paragraph with the given topic sentence. Then, they must order the sentences correctly to form the paragraph.

Michael Jordan Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sentences

Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are eight total sentences.

Roberto Clemente Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sentences

Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are nine total sentences.

Amelia Earhart Main Idea and Supporting Sentences

Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are nine total sentences.

Alexander Hamilton Text Elements - Paragraph Headings

Description: This printable activity requires students to match seven different headings to their correct paragraphs.

Alexander Hamilton Main Idea and Supporting Sentences

Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are eight total sentences.

Jackie Robinson Headings and Supporting Sentences

Description: This printable activity requires students to match the five different headings to their correct paragraphs.

Jackie Robinson Main Idea and Supporting Details - Printable

Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are seven total sentences.

Phillis Wheatley Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sentences - Printable

Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are seven total sentences.

Crispus Attucks and Text Elements - Paragraph headings

Description: This printable activity requires students to match the five different headings to their correct paragraphs.

Frederick Douglass and Text Elements - Paragraph headings

Description: This printable activity requires students to match the eight different headings to their correct paragraphs.

Frederick Douglass and Text Structures - Inference and Conflict

Description: This printable activity requires students to make inferences to why various conflicts occurred in the life of Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass and Text Structures - Problem/Solution

Description: This printable activity requires students to fill in the problem or the solution in several statements involving Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass and Text Elements - Topic Sentence and Supporting Details

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

George Washington Carver and Text Elements - Causes and Effects

Description: This printable activity requires students to fill in a cause and effect chart where some of the causes are empty and some of the effects are empty. Students can choose from a bank the causes and effects to enter.

George Washington Carver and Text Elements - Topic Sentence and Supporting Details

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

George Washington Carver and Text Elements - Paragraph headings

Description: This printable activity requires students to match the five different headings to their correct paragraphs.

The Battles of Bull Run Text Structure Reading Comprehension

Description: This activity requires students to read through four Bull Run-themed paragraph and to identify the text structures as: cause and effect, problem-solution, chronological, and compare and contrast

Crabs of Christmas Island Text Structure Reading Comprehension

Description: This reading comprehension exercise requires students to identify the text structures in four crab-themed paragraphs: compare and contrast, cause and effect, sequential, and problem-solution.

Ruby Bridges and Text Elements - Causes and Effects

Description: This printable activity requires students to fill in a cause and effect chart where some of the causes are empty and some of the effects are empty. Students can choose from a bank the causes and effects to enter.

Ruby Bridges and Text Elements - Topic Sentence and Supporting Details

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

Ruby Bridges and Text Elements - Paragraph headings

Description: This printable activity requires students to match the five different headings to their correct paragraphs.

Benjamin Banneker and Text Elements - Topic Sentence and Supporting Details

Description: This printable activity requires students to select sentences from a series of sentences that fit under the given topic sentence, and to construct a paragraph based on the logical order of the selected sentences.

Benjamin Banneker and Text Elements - Paragraph headings

Description: This printable activity requires students to match the five different headings to their correct paragraphs.

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