Informational Text &Text Structure

Multiple Choice

The author wrote this selection MOST LIKELY to –

• to argue that it is best to reconcile that with someone who has wronged you

• to highlight research about forgiveness

• to emphasize that forgiveness is a choice that you make to increase your own wellness

• to explain the power of an apology in resolving conflict

Multiple Choice

Based on the information throughout the selection, the reader can conclude overall that

• Dad’s who live in the same home as their children are more active in their children’s lives

• Father’s contribute to raising their children just as much as the mothers do

• Men resist  having active roles in their child’s life because it is in their interest to do so

• Due to rigid gender roles, mothers are expected to do most of the work

Multiple Choice

Which line from the text supports why the author would choose this image to display with the article’s title?

• Division of labor in the home is one of the most important equity issues of our time. Yet at this rate it will be another 75 years before men do half the work.

• The answer lies, in part, in the different ways that men and women typically experience unfairness.

• A mother in Illinois said: “My husband is a participatory and willing partner. He’s not traditional in terms of ‘I don’t change diapers.’ But his attention is limited.”

• A dad in San Francisco said that many of the tasks of parenting weren’t important enough to remember: “I just don’t think these things are worth attending to. A certain percentage of parental involvement that my wife does, I would see as valuable but unnecessary

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from paragraph 2. 

When my husband and I became parents a decade ago, we were not prepared for the ways in which sexism was about to express itself in our relationship.

The author is implying that --

• The mother and father do equal amounts of work in the home.

• Sexism is an outdated notion that plays no role in today’s society.

• The inequality in parenting roles placed a strain on their relationship.

• The father does more work in the home than the mother.

Multiple Choice

Which detail from the article supports the key idea that disparity in the work at home has significant effects on the mother?

• Studies show that male employees sit back while their female co-workers perform the tasks that don’t lead to promotion. 

• We play the same games at home. I interviewed couples separately and found that the women were often angry, while many men didn’t seem to realize there was a problem.

• It has to do with her personality. She always has to stay busy. No matter what day of the week it is, she has a need to be engaged, to be doing something.

• The first was that women take over activities like bedtime, homework and laundry because men perform these tasks inadequately.

Success Criteria- Text Structure

I can pinpoint the thesis statement.

I can identify text structures in each paragraph and observe the text overall to determine the supporting details and organizational patterns employed by an author.

I can explain how the text structure impacts the paragraph or text overall ask myself questions after each paragraph:

-What is the text structure? Is there more than one embedded in the paragraph?

-How does this text structure support the thesis?

Informational Text:

-Informs us on a specific topic

-Allows the reader to easily find key information and understand the main topic

Open Ended

An author might __ or __ important vocab

Multiple Choice

Which are examples of literary non-fiction?

• interviews, autobiographies

• Harry Potter, Hunger Games

Open Ended

Give me 1 example of a procedural text

Open Ended

List the 5 text structures:

Practice

• Read each passage.

• Determine how the text is organized: cause and effect, compare and contrast, chronological order, sequence / process writing, problem and solution, or spatial / descriptive.

  
  

• Identify the signal words

Poll

What is the text structure of "studying for a Test"

• Compare and contrast

• Sequence or process writing

• Problem and solution

• Spatial / descriptive writing

• Cause and effect

Poll

What is the text structure of "Low Test"

• Compare and contrast

• Sequence or process writing

• Problem and solution

• Spatial / descriptive writing

• Cause and effect

Poll

What is the text structure of "The Gym Room"

• Compare and contrast

• Sequence or process writing

• Problem and solution

• Spatial / descriptive writing

• Cause and effect

Poll

What is the text structure of "Eligibility"

• Compare and contrast

• Sequence or process writing

• Problem and solution

• Spatial / descriptive writing

• Cause and effect

DOL Practice: Identify the text structure and the key words

Multiple Choice

The Cretaceous Period was filled with dangerous predators, but two of the most feared hunters were the tyrannosaurus rex and the velociraptor. The tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest carnivores to ever walk the Earth. He was 20 feet tall and weighed seven tons. His jaws could crush down with 3,000 lbs. of force, enough to smash the bones of his prey. The velociraptor was very small compared to rex. Raptors only stood three feet tall and were seven feet long, weighing merely 35 pounds. But the velociraptor was fast. Scientists think that raptors could run 24 miles per hour and turn on a dime. Both dinosaurs used their jaws to kill prey, but the raptor had a secret weapon: a retractable toe claw that he pulled out like a knife to slash at his prey. Both dinosaurs had eyes on the front of their heads, which helped them track prey. If these two dinosaurs had fought, it would be difficult to say which would win; however since raptors died over ten million years before the first tyrannosaurus was born, scientists don’t believe such a fight ever occurred.

• Sequence

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

Fill in the Blank

Identify the signal words for the pattern in paragraph 1.

Open Ended

What do all of these commercials have in common??