Scientific and Technical Texts

Text Structure

What are we learning?

• how to describe relationships in paragraphs

• text structure

3RI3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

• •Describe: explain in detail

  •Relationship: how two ideas are related

  •Historical events: something that happened in history

  •Scientific idea or concepts: facts that are related to science

  •Steps in technical procedure: the order of how to do something.

  •Sequence: order of how events happen

  •Cause and effect: cause is the reason why something happens. The effect is the result of what happened.

Multiple Choice

What is text structure?

• all the components of a story or article that are not the main body of text. These include the table of contents, index, glossary, headings, bold words, sidebars, pictures and captions, and labeled diagrams.

• the way the author organizes the text in a nonfiction text. They include description, problem/solution, compare/contrast, sequence/chronology, and cause/effect.

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Presents EVENTS in sequential order from beginning to end

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Explains the reasons for why events happen

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Gives sensory (taste, smell, hear, feel) and descriptive details sharing who, what, when, where, why, and how about a subject.

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Describes similarities and differences shared

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Describes a problem and presents how it is solved

Understanding Technical and Scientific Texts

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Multiple Choice

According to "Operating Your ACME W914," which setting would you use to take a clear picture of things that are both near and far away?

• Auto

• Portrait

• Night

• Landscape

Open Ended

Just like there are different types of buildings for different needs, there are different text structures for what authors are presenting.

What were the 5 types of text structure?

Multiple Choice

Reread pages 4-6 about the shooting mode dial setting in "Operating Your Camera."

How can you prevent the flash from going off no matter how much light there is?

• Set the Flash button to FLASH

• Set the shooting mode dial to Night

• Set the Flash button to flash off

• Set the shooting mode dial to AUTO

Multiple Choice

Suppose Olive is looking at a picture she has already taken on her camera's view screen.

According to "Operating Your ACME W914 Camera," if she presses the left arrow, what will happen next?

• She will see the first picture she ever took.

• She will be ready to take a new picture.

• She will see the previous picture.

• She will delete the picture.

Multiple Choice

According to "Operating Your ACME W914 Camera", how can you permanently delete a picture from your camera?

• by pressing the ERASE button.

• by switching the shooting mode dial to AUTO.

• by turning the zoom lever to the left.

• by pressing the ON/OFF button.

Poll

Rate your level of understanding of the standard for 3RI3 Describe Relationship

• 3 Proficient Learner (I can explain this to someone else.)

• 2 Developing Learner (I know some of what was taught, but I am still unclear on some things.)

• 1 Beginning Learner (I did not understand the lesson from today and will need more help.)

Multiple Choice

How can the reader tell that "Digital Cameras" is a scientific text?

• It relates to the interests of many readers.

• It tells about chnages in equipment over time.

• It explains how digital cameras work.

• It gives directions for making a digital camera.

Multiple Choice

According to "Digital Cameras," what happened BEFORE an image appreared on the film used by cameras so long ago?

• The film went through a chemical process.

• The printed picture was exosed to light.

• The film was put into a memory card.

• The printed picture was ready to look at.

Multiple Choice

Reread paragraph 3 of Digital Cameras."

Which details from the paragraph BEST explains why some pixels will be black and the others will be white?

• The more pixels a camera has, the more details it can capture.

• When light hits the sensor, an electrial charge is created.

• The strength of each charge decides the color of each pixel

• When all the pixels are combined, the picture is formed.

Multiple Choice

According to "Digital Cameras," what happens immediately AFTER light enters a camera?

• The picture is stored on a memory card

• The image is transferred to a computer

• The lens focuses the light on a sensor

• The camera sets the shutter speed sutomatically.