STEM Reading/Writing: Cracking Code of Nonfiction Text

About Course

Master the five nonfiction text structures used in science, technology, engineering, and math. Through logic puzzles, step-by-step tasks, picture challenges, and clear examples, you’ll learn to read STEM texts faster, understand complex ideas, and explain your thinking with confidence.

Course Content

Informational Text Structures
Introduction to Five Informational Text Structures

1. Why We Study Text Structures?
2. The Five Essential Informational Text Structures
Identify the Text Structures
3. How to Identify a Structure While Reading
Structure Sorting Relay
6. How Text Structures Shape Thinking
Quiz

Effective Ways to Write Informational Text
In this lesson, we learn the five major informational text structures again — this time with a focus on: What is the BEST way to present each type of information?

1. Plain text is not always the best way to present information.
2. Description — When you want the reader to SEE
Quiz on Description Paragraph – Layers of Earth
3. Description — Structured Information
4. SEQUENCE / PROCESS — When Order Matters
5. CAUSE–EFFECT — When One Thing Leads to Another
6. COMPARE–CONTRAST — When You Need to See Differences Clearly
7. PROBLEM–SOLUTION — When Something Needs to Be Fixed
Effective Ways to Write Informational Text

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Course Content

Informational Text Structures Introduction to Five Informational Text Structures

1. Why We Study Text Structures?

2. The Five Essential Informational Text Structures

Identify the Text Structures

3. How to Identify a Structure While Reading

Structure Sorting Relay

6. How Text Structures Shape Thinking

Quiz

Effective Ways to Write Informational Text In this lesson, we learn the five major informational text structures again — this time with a focus on: What is the BEST way to present each type of information?

1. Plain text is not always the best way to present information.

2. Description — When you want the reader to SEE

Quiz on Description Paragraph – Layers of Earth

3. Description — Structured Information

4. SEQUENCE / PROCESS — When Order Matters

5. CAUSE–EFFECT — When One Thing Leads to Another

6. COMPARE–CONTRAST — When You Need to See Differences Clearly

7. PROBLEM–SOLUTION — When Something Needs to Be Fixed

Effective Ways to Write Informational Text

Informational Text Structures
Introduction to Five Informational Text Structures

Effective Ways to Write Informational Text
In this lesson, we learn the five major informational text structures again — this time with a focus on: What is the BEST way to present each type of information?