How authors organize text, part 1

What is the purpose of a heading/sub heading in a nonfiction text?

• To go give you information about the author.

• To describe the characters in a story.

• To describe what the focus of a text is.

• To tell you a funny joke.

What are the 2 subheadings in this text?

Type them down below.

What is the purpose of a subheading in a nonfiction text?

• It breaks down the information in a text into manageable chunks.

• It helps you find the answers to a question.

• It makes the text more interesting.

• To make the text look cool.

What does it mean to compare two ideas in a text?

• To separate them into different groups.

• To identify how they are different.

• To identify which idea is incorrect.

• To show and identifying similarities between two things.

What does contrast mean?

• To find the similarities between two ideas in a text.

• To find differences between two ideas in a text.

• To help readers understand the information better in a text

• I don't know

What is this diagram called?

• Line graph

• Bar graph

• Pie chart

• Venn diagram

Why may an author use the compare and contrast model in a nonfiction text?

• To discuss similarities and differences in the topics they are writing about.

• To discuss why one subject is bad and why the other is good.

• To identify the main ideas in a text.

• To identify the subject in a text.

Cause: Fossil fuels are burned. What is the effect?:

• To cool things down.

• Energy is destroyed.

• Energy is produced.

• Dinosaurs are created.

Cause: Potential energy exerts a force on a moving object. What is the effect?

• Chemical energy is created.

• Mechanical energy is created.

• Energy is destroyed.

• The moving object stops.

Why do you think an author will use different writing models (compare/contrast, cause and effect, etc) to organize information in their writing?