Text Structure Probes Editable

About this resource

Everything inside: 25 pages · 6 original silent-reading passages with 24 questions · 6 equivalent probe forms across five text structures · a shared answer-key and scoring page for all six forms · a data log and scaled trend graph · a caseload summary · a ready-to-send family update · a classroom teacher check-in (a second setting) · a 17-starter phrase bank · a binder cover and 4-section binder map · a worked, invented example.

The store already had probes that test comprehension WITHIN one already-known structure — a stated cause and its stated effect, two things compared — but nothing that asks a student to look at a mixed passage and name WHICH of the five common nonfiction/narrative structures it is organized in. This file hands the student six original, invented passages, each about 70–110 words, about an everyday school-or-home moment (a classroom reading nook, setting up an aquarium, a drooping classroom plant, indoor versus outdoor recess, a problem in the classroom library, a flat bike tire), each written to clearly exhibit exactly one of five structures — description, sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution — through real structural signal words printed in the text itself (first/next/finally for sequence; because/as a result for cause and effect; however/unlike for compare and contrast; the problem was/to solve this for problem and solution; sensory and attribute language, with no transition words, for description). Scoring, the rubric and the answer key live on separate adult-only pages, never in the student's hands. Because the word or phrase that proves the structure is always printed in the passage itself, every accepted clue on the key page is a literal quote from that form's own passage, so a scorer can check any accepted answer against the text itself without taking the file's word for it.

WHAT IS INCLUDED — 25 pages, 491 type-in fields

Prepare To Give The Probes

• Binder Cover and Section Map — a spine/cover card, a 4-box section reference (not a cutting page), and an 8-row "where to find things" index
• How This Pack Works — how the six forms share one rubric and one key page, plus a 3-row table comparing what each of the file's three tools measures
• Text Structure Goal, Rubric and Directions — a sample IEP-style goal (invented, every bracket editable), a baseline table (median of the first three probes), a rubric defining correct/incorrect (a clue counts only if it is quoted on the key page for that form), and a 2-row benchmark table

Take The Data

• Six Probe Forms (A–F) — each a clean, student-facing page: a "My name" line, one kid-worded instruction with a book icon, the passage, and four numbered questions with a real four-line answer box each (1 question naming the text structure from a closed list of five, 1 on what that structure does for a reader, 2 asking for a different signal word or phrase each) — nothing scored, no goal text, no marks on this page. Structures covered: description (Form A), sequence (Form B), cause and effect (Forms C and F, two different topics), compare and contrast (Form D), problem and solution (Form E).
• Answer Keys and Scoring — one shared adult-only page with all six forms' accepted structure name, "what it does for a reader" phrasing and two quoted clue words/phrases (the structure and "what it does" answers are each one of a short closed list; the two clue answers accepted in either box) and a Score /4 field per form

Track, Report And Share

• Text Structure Accuracy Data Log — 12 dated rows, one form per row
• Text Structure Accuracy Trend Graph — a scaled 0–100% grid plus a 12-row log table
• Caseload Summary — 12 students by 8 probes, baseline and criterion percent, trend and decision columns
• Family Update — Reading at Home — a ready-to-send communication page: what was read, how it went in plain words, a practice idea, and a 7-day practiced table
• Classroom Text Structure Check-In — two half-page notes per sheet, cut apart: a checkbox, one sentence, no codes, for the general education teacher or paraprofessional during regular class reading (a different setting from the six probe forms)
• Progress Note Phrase Bank — 17 observable-language starters across 5 groups (text-structure accuracy, clue-identification accuracy, pattern across probes, next steps, the quarterly-report sentence), every one ending in a blank pulled from a data sheet in the file
• A Filled-In Probe Set and Log — a worked, invented example (Reese M., fourth grade) with a 4-row weekly log and a 2-row answer-key excerpt, every number cross-checked against the arithmetic behind it

Plus a Start Here quick-start, a 3-section contents page with real page thumbnails, 3 section dividers, and a "what's next" back page.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF. Open it in a PDF reader, click a field, type, save. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT a Google Sheets file, a Google Doc, or an Excel workbook, and it does not calculate a percent for you. The six probe forms print cleanly for the student to write directly on.

It is not a norm-referenced or standardized reading test, and it is not a Lexile or grade-level placement tool. It does not set a passing criterion or sort a student into any category — that is a blank line for your team. It is not Point of View, Character Traits and Motivation, Compare and Contrast, or Cause and Effect Reading Comprehension Probes, each of which measures comprehension within or about one already-known structure or lens; this file is the one place in the family where the question itself is "which structure is this," checked against the signal words the passage actually uses.

No age, eligibility or IDEA-timeline claim anywhere; no health data is pre-filled, and the example student (Reese) is invented and named as such on page 24.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers, reading interventionists and case managers who need text-structure identification measured with the student's own written answers as the evidence, scored from an answer key in under a minute a form.

If You Want More

Point of View, Character Traits and Motivation, Compare and Contrast and Cause and Effect Reading Comprehension Probes are the sibling comprehension-passage probes, the same six-form shape, each scoring a different reading skill.