The Strategic System Conclusions Organizer and outliner programs are also helpful for teaching textual structures. These programs help make organizational and hierarchical relationships explicit for students who may not pick them up easily.
Teachers can create models, or templates, for the structures of written expression.
Examples range from the prototypical paragraph with its topic sentence and several supporting sentences to the structure of a Greek myth, including a hero, a villain, a struggle, and a resolution, in idea map form. The latter can include bubbles labeled according to the structure, but left empty for students to fill. This provides students with a model for the structure of the writing, but leaves them free to generate their own ideas within that structure. Awareness of the recognition system's role in writing can help teachers be more deliberate in their selection of tools, tasks, and supports, and technology provides a powerful ally for teaching writing-related pattern recognition, from letter shapes to author's style. With technology tools, assignments, practice content, and feedback can be customized for different learners, making universally designed pattern recognition activities feasible in classrooms of students with widely varied learning needs.