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After reading the chapter and completing the learning activities, you should be able to:
  • Provide opportunities for students to read and write information.
  • Design opportunities for efferent and aesthetic reading of informational text.
  • Identify the main types of text structure found in expository writing: description, sequence, comparison, cause and effect, and problem and solution.
  • Provide learning opportunities that allow students to use their knowledge of expository text structure when reading and writing informational text.
  • Develop instructional activities in which students use clusters, diagrams, flowcharts, and data charts.
  • Create a classroom environment that promotes writing reports, stories, poems, and biographies.



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