Analyze Text Structure

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Learning Target: I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

​Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept

​RI5

​Standard and Learning Target

Some text here about the topic of discussion

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• Text structures are the way the author decides to organize ideas in a text/passage.

• Text structure determines how each part of the text supports and relates to other parts of the text.

• Text structure brings meaning to the whole text.

• Understanding the relationship between ideas in the text help develop the central idea.

• Central idea/main idea is what the text is mostly about.

​Vocabulary

Multiple Choice

What are text structures?

• Text structures are the way the author decides to organize ideas in a text/passage.

• Text structures compares and contrast two things in a text.

• Text structures are adjectives in a text.

Multiple Choice

A central idea/main idea is what the text is mostly about.

• True

• False

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Learning Target: I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

There are five ways an author can organize a text.

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Multiple Choice

What text structure is being used? Use the chart in Canvas to assist you with this answer.

Learning Target:

I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

• Description

• Sequence (Chronological)

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Multiple Choice

What text structure is being used? Use the chart in Canvas to assist you with this answer.

Learning Target: I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

• Compare and Contrast

• Sequence (Chronological)

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Description

Multiple Choice

What text structure is being used? Use the chart in Canvas to assist you with this answer.

Learning Target:

I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

• Description

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Sequence (Chronological)

Multiple Choice

What text structure is being used? Use the chart in Canvas to assist you with this answer.

Learning Target:

I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

• Description

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Sequence (Chronological Order)

Multiple Choice

What text structure is being used? Use the chart in Canvas to assist you with this answer.

Learning Target:

I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

• Description

• Sequence (Chronological Order)

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Cause and Effect

​Model

​Now that you know how to identify different text structures, let's see how does the text structure helps develops the central idea of a text.

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Learning Target: I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

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Draw

What seems to be the main structure in this article? Why has the author chosen it?

Learning Target: I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

Let's do one together as a class!​

Learning Target: I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

Guided Practice

Draw

Learning Target: I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

Multiple Choice

How does the text structure in the second paragraph contribute to the account as a whole?

Learning Target: I can analyze the structure of a specific paragraph of text, telling how each sentence is important in the development of the concept.

• The author uses cause and effect to explain how genes can cause some family members to have different traits from the others.

• The author lists the sequence of events that allows recessive genes to surface instead of dominant ones.

• The author presents the problem of people like Kate not knowing why they look different and then gives the solution.

• The author compares and contrast brown-eyed and brown-haired individuals with those that have blue eyes and red hair.

Open Ended

Explain how the first paragraph contributes to the author's development of the ideas. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Sentence Starter: The first paragraph contributes to the author's development of the idea by using ( which text structure?). The author states, "_______" this explains how _____________________.

​INDEPENDENT PRACTICE

​Work on NearPod assignment in

Canvas under this week's module. ​