Connections with Text Structure

What is a connection within text?

• Knowing that you are right

• Main idea supported by facts or details

• Summary of the text

• Relationship/ pulling it together

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CCSS.RF.1.3A

CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RI.1.3

CCSS.RI.2.3

CCSS.RI.3.8

Ray Sullivan, a retired National Park Ranger, was hit 7 times by lightning. He has been knocked down, and picked up and thrown into the air. He has lost his shoes and a toenail, and he can’t hear as well, but at least he’s still alive.

Now he lives in a mobile home with lightning rods on each end and lightning rods on trees around his home. Hopefully, lightning will follow the rods and leave Ray alone.

• The first paragraph explains how Ray Sullivan escaped the storms mentioned in paragraph talked about in the second paragraph.

• The first paragraph explains why Ray Sullivan uses the lightning rods mentioned in the last paragraph.

• The first paragraph describes how Ray Sullivan built the new home mentioned in the last paragraph.

• The first paragraph introduces the reasons Ray Sullivan lives in the city mentioned in last paragraph.

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

It is plain to those who have studied the ways of birds that they are able to tell things to each other, and many writers have said plainly that birds have a language.

Then see a robin out of doors. He is less afraid of us than most birds, and easiest to watch. If something comes up on him suddenly, he gives a sharp note of surprise. If a cat appears, he has another cry which everyone can understand, a word of warning to all. If everything is quiet and his mate is near, he will greet her with some low, sweet notes.What is the connection between these paragraphs?

• Both show how birds use language in different situations.

• Both explain how birds have the same tone.

• Both show how people listen to birds.

• Both show how people train birds.

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

“And when they have young to feed, they collect a mouthful which they make up into a sort of little ball.”

“Then they fly to the nest and feed it to one of the little ones.”

What is the relationship between these sentences?

• The sentences make a comparison.

• The sentences describe two steps in a process.

• The first sentence explains the cause of the second.

• The second sentence explains the effect of the first.

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

Barn swallows are social and always go in flocks. They sing, too—a sweet little song, but not very loud. It is charming to hear them in a barn when five or six of them sing together. But one may often hear the little song from a single bird flying over.

How are the sentences connected?

• They tell about how barn swallows fly.

• B They tell about how barn swallows look.

• They tell about how barn swallows sing.

• They tell about how barn swallows travel.

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

Admiral Perry and The North Pole

“More than once I have come back from the great frozen spaces, battered and worn and confused, sometimes injured, telling myself that I had made my last journey there. But somehow, it was never many months before the old restless feeling came over me. I began to long for the battles with the ice and the strong winds, the handful of odd but faithful Eskimos who had been my friends for years, the silence and the great white lonely North. And back I went, time after time, until at last my dream of many years came true.”

How are these sentences connected?

• They all explain how Admiral Peary found the North Pole.

• They all explain why Admiral Peary liked traveling to the North Pole.

• They all explain why Admiral Peary stopped looking for the North Pole.

• They all explain how Admiral Peary chose whom to take with him to the North Pole.

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

What the bird eats and where he gets his food are useful things for us to know. It has only lately been found out that birds are the most valuable of helpers to us. Some of the things birds are fond of are little animals, like mice and ground squirrels, that eat our crops. Others are insects which spoil our fruit and eat up our vegetables, cankerworms and cutworms, and a hundred more.

What is the connection between the sentences in this paragraph?

• They give examples of foods birds like to eat.

• B They tell farmers what to plant for crops.

• They provide ways to attract more birds.

• They explain how to keep birds away

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

The catbird watches the fruit trees, and all day long eats insects that are spoiling our fruit or killing the trees. When the cherries are ripe, we should not forget that he has saved the fruit from insects, and has well earned a share for himself.

If you spent days and weeks picking off insects, would you not think you had earned part of the fruit? “For every cherry he eats” (says a man who has watched him), “he has eaten at least 1,000 insects.”

What is the relationship between these paragraphs?

• Both explain why birds should be allowed to eat the farmer’s fruits.

• Both explain why birds should not eat insects.

• Both explain why birds eat so much food.

• Both explain why birds are hungry.

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CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.3.9

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

What is the connection between the two sentences below?

“Don’t use a phone with a cord, the microwave, or other electric appliance. Lightning could follow the wire, hurt you, and wipe out the appliance.”

• They describe the problem caused by turning off the computer in a lightning storm.

• They explain the difference between using a phone with a cord and using a cell phone.

• They describe the possible effect of using appliances during a lightning storm.

• They explain the benefit of staying safe inside during a lightning storm.

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

Big wind storms maybe dangerous. Keep away from windows and doors. Flying glass could hurt you.

What is explained in the sentences above?

• Closing a window or door in a storm can be dangerous.

• It is easy to trip and fall through a window or a door.

• Throwing something during a storm could break glass.

• Winds can break glass, which can cause injuries.

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2