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No Prep Scaffolded Resource To Help Your Students Understand Text Structures
No Prep Scaffolded Resource To Help Your Students Understand Text Structures
It provides plenty of
practice with both short
texts and longer texts.
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INTRODUCING PROBLEM & SOLUTION Page 2
Crows like to eat insects like beetles and grubs. These insects
can be hard to find, however. Many of them will bury inside a tree
trunk or other hard to reach places. Crows have figured out a clever
way to reach insects like this. They will find a stick, sometimes
bending it into a good shape, and poke tree trunks to reach the
insects.
Problem Solution
Insects that
crows want to
eat can be
buried in hard
to reach
places.
Problem Solution
When playing hide-and-seek, one player closes their eyes and counts
while everyone else hides.
Keeping your glasses in a designated spot every time you take them off
can help you remember where they are.
Problem Solution
When making a quilt, first choose a pattern and then begin cutting and
sewing the patches together.
Staying at home and washing your hands regularly when you are sick can
help keep viruses from spreading to other people.
Problem Solution
Circle the sentences below that have a problem and solution text structure. Cross out
the ones that do not.
2. Pineapples don’t grow well in colder areas that don’t get a lot of
sun.
3. Cleaning a cut or scrape will not stop the pain, but it will prevent
infection.
4. If the Internet goes out in your house, you can play board games or
read a book to amuse yourself.
5. Single-use plastics like water bottles can only be used once and,
when thrown away improperly, can end up in the ocean.
7. Fences are structures that are usually made of wire or wood and
are used to enclose an area.
Choose one of the sentences above that has a problem and solution text
structure. Use the information to fill in the graphic organizer below.
Problem Solution
Read each text. Decide whether the passages use a problem and solution text structure
or do NOT use a problem and solution text structure. Glue the passages in the correct
column on the next page.
Read the passage below. Come up with an appropriate title for the passage. Then,
use the information from the passage to answer the questions on the next page.
Title: ___________________________________
The giant panda bear is a much-loved animal, known for its black
and white body and overwhelming cuteness. Despite the universal love for
giant pandas, these animal were once on the endangered list, meaning
there was a very high risk that all the giant pandas in the wild would die.
The extinction of giant pandas would have been a huge loss.
The main threat to giant pandas is a loss of their habitat. Giant
pandas can only be found in China, and the human population of China is
growing rapidly. As humans build roads, railways, and buildings, the forests
where giant pandas live grow smaller. This makes it harder for giant
pandas to find bamboo – which is essential to keep them alive. Without
enough bamboo, these bears starve.
As more cities and roads are built, giant pandas also have a much
harder time moving from one forest to
another. This means that some pandas are
isolated or far away from other pandas and
can have trouble finding mates.
Because of this human development,
the population of wild pandas had grown
small enough that they were once
considered endangered. Through a variety
of conservation efforts, however, the
population of wild pandas is now getting bigger instead of smaller.
The Chinese government, along with other organizations, has worked
hard to protect the forest areas where pandas live. They have created
many panda reserves – areas where trees can’t be cut down and the
bamboo that giant pandas eat is safe. They have also created green
corridors. These are areas that connect one forest to another forest so
that giant pandas can travel without having to go through cities.
All of these efforts to protect the giant panda have helped! They are
no longer considered an endangered species, although they are still
vulnerable. If their habitat is not protected, giant pandas may become
endangered once again.
3. What detail from the text did you find most interesting? Why?
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4. Draw a problem and solution graphic organizer below, and then fill it
in using information from the text.
The student
The student The student needs
demonstrated an
demonstrated an more text
average
excellent structures practice.
Understanding understanding of
understanding of The student
text structures and
of Text the different text struggled with
was able to
Structures structures and was
distinguish
distinguishing
easily able to between the
between the text
distinguish different text
structures most of
between them. structures.
the time.
The student’s
The student’s
answers lacked
answers were The student’s
Quality of thoughtfulness and
thoughtful, logical, answers were
details. The
Content: and interesting. expected and
student answered
The student did predictable.
with the minimum
their best work.
required.
Teacher Comments:
Crows like to eat insects like beetles and grubs. These insects
can be hard to find, however. Many of them will bury inside a tree
trunk or other hard to reach places. Crows have figured out a clever
way to reach insects like this. They will find a stick, sometimes
bending it into a good shape, and poke tree trunks to reach the
insects.
Problem Solution
Insects that
Crows use a
crows want to
stick to poke
eat can be
tree trunks
buried in hard
and reach
to reach
the insects.
places.
Problem Solution
Keep campsites
Black bears from smelling like
like human food by keeping
food and your tent clean
trash. and storing food
in bear canisters.
When playing hide-and-seek, one player closes their eyes and counts
while everyone else hides.
Keeping your glasses in a designated spot every time you take them off
can help you remember where they are.
Problem Solution
Keep them in a
Not
designated
remembering
spot every
where your
time you take
glasses are
them off.
When making a quilt, first choose a pattern and then begin cutting and
sewing the patches together.
Staying at home and washing your hands regularly when you are sick can
help keep viruses from spreading to other people.
Problem Solution
Stay at
When you are
home and
sick you can
wash your
spread viruses
hands
to others
regularly
Circle the sentences below that have a problem and solution text structure. Cross out
the ones that do not.
2. Pineapples don’t grow well in colder areas that don’t get a lot of
sun.
3. Cleaning a cut or scrape will not stop the pain, but it will prevent
infection.
4. If the Internet goes out in your house, you can play board games or
read a book to amuse yourself.
5. Single-use plastics like water bottles can only be used once and,
when thrown away improperly, can end up in the ocean.
7. Fences are structures that are usually made of wire or wood and
are used to enclose an area.
Choose one of the sentences above that has a problem and solution text
structure. Use the information to fill in the graphic organizer below.
3. What detail from the text did you find most interesting? Why?
ANSWERS WILL VARY
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
4. Draw a problem and solution graphic organizer below, and then fill it
in using information from the text.
Problem Solution
Giant pandas The Chinese
became government
endangered created panda
because their reserves to
habitat was taken protect the
over by humans. forests pandas
live in.
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