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Expository Structure
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    1. Structural schema of lessons
    2. Most lessons have expository text
    3. Structural understanding aids comprehension
    4. Lesson: To learn about effective practices in teaching expository text analysis to enable reading comprehension in struggling readers
    5. Handouts & Reading

  2. Expository Structure
    1. Parasitology text
    2. Students with learning disabilities are not always aware of text structures

  3. Purpose and Goals
    1. To zero in on expository text and explain how to help students with reading disabilities use expository text strategically to comprehend genre
    2. To describe expository genre
    3. To report what research says about students' understanding of expository structure
    4. To explain text grammar as a tool for expository text analysis
    5. To give suggestions on how to approach the teaching of strategic use of expository structure

  4. Lesson Questions
    1. What features of expository text, including text grammar, do students need to know?
    2. What specific problems do students with reading disabilities have with expository text?
    3. How should you teach students to use text grammars and associated structures strategically for reading comprehension?

  5. Characteristics of Expository Text
    1. They inform, describe, explain, enumerate, discuss, compare/contrast, persuade, and problem-solve
    2. Have multiple organizational patterns, or text grammars
    3. They are difficult to predict based on content
    4. Well-presented text includes a variety of structural or visual cues to make the organization clear
    5. Different types of relationships are present in different types of text patterns
    6. Various text patterns are signaled by different headings, subheadings, and signal words

  6. Students' Understanding of Expository Texts
    1. Expository text is generally more difficult to comprehend than narrative
    2. Some expository structures are easier than others are
    3. Understanding a variety of expository texts is important for reading textbook
    4. Struggling students' problems with expository texts

  7. Text Grammar as a Tool for Expository Text Analysis
    1. Rationale for use
    2. Expository text grammars
    3. Inconsiderate text

  8. Strategic Use of Expository
    1. What to teach
    2. Teaching macrostructures
    3. Identifying main ideas
    4. Language connections
    5. Use of "The Survey Routine"
    6. Elements of strategic instruction

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