Text-Based Instruction - Cluster/Word Web 3

Text-Based Instruction

Text structures: It's the way you organize a text.

Linking spoken and written texts to the social and cultural contexts of their use.

Description:

1. Topic

2. Trait

3. Detail

Argument:

1. Claim

2. Reason

3. Evidence

4. Counter-Claim

5. Refutation

6. Concluding Statement

Outline: It helps us to organize our ideas in a better way.

How to teach text structures?

Using graphic organizers, teach each structure one at a time.

Have students map structures.

Add more structures one at a time.

Teach signal words.

Build awareness of superordinate and subordinate structures.

Use common terms as a whole staff.

Communicative competence really means mastering the ability to use and understand different types of texts.

- Description

- Sequence

- Comparison

- Cause and effect

- Problem/Solution

- Argument

TBI focuses largely on developing the skills to execute language in specific ways using specific text types according to the students' learning situation.