Text Structure Lab

Students sort passages by structure, hunt signal words, color-code an article and fill in graphic organizers.

Grades 3–12Virtual lab · 5 stations1 student per deviceNo student loginsWorks offline

Try it free: the demo opens the Start page and Station 1 right in your browser. No sign-up needed.

Virtual labs are sold separately and aren’t part of the All-Access licenses.

Grade versions included

Grades 3–5: A sea turtle article, time-order and contrast clues, simple organizers
Grades 6–8: A monarch migration article, a cause-and-effect chain, one topic in five structures
Grades 9–12: A shipping container article with embedded structures, feedback loops, rhetorical effect

Description, sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, signal words, graphic organizers, structure and author's purpose

OAS Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing

Common Core: RI.5

Open the game file in any web browser: Chromebooks, laptops or your smartboard. No accounts, no student logins and no internet needed once it's downloaded.
The download has a separate file for each grade band. Open the one that fits your class.
Each student types their name on the Start page, then works through the stations in order. Each station has a prediction, a hands-on activity, a data table or log that fills in as they work and a check question.
Students finish with a printable lab report (print or save as PDF). The Teacher Notes include the standards, a full answer key and a reset button for shared devices.
Each purchase includes the lab files and a one-page Quick Start guide.