facilitating students' comprehension: text factors
Teachers should be aware of the structure of text so that they can help students become
more successful readers and writers.
How Effective Teachers Focus on Text Factors
more successful readers and writers.
How Effective Teachers Focus on Text Factors
- Teachers teach students that stories have unique text factors: narrative genres, story elements, and narrative devices
- Teachers teach students that informational books have unique text factors: nonfiction genres, expository text structures, and nonfiction features.
- Teachers teach students that poems have unique text factors: book formats, poetic forms, and poetic devices.
- Teachers encourage students to apply their knowledge of text factors when they’re reading and writing.