Understanding Text Organization
Understanding Text Organization
Comparison
Differences
Differences
Similarities
Description
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Sequence
Event 4 Event 5
Appendix 4
Fish Sharks
Differences Differences
Similarities
fish can float live in Shark cant float
Fish have water Sharks have
skeletons made of skeletons made of
hard bones hard cartilage
Shark have
several rows of
teeth
Some sharks
attack humans
Description
Halloween Halloween
in the past today
People made
lanterns out of Similarities
People make
turnips playing lanterns out of
apple pumpkins and
People put out bobbing
food for ghosts sometimes
dressing watermelons
People walked up in scary
around the People give sweets
costumes to children
streets nosily
People played People play Trick
tricked on others or Treating.
Sequence
1886: Coca-Cola 1888: Dr. John 1898: Asa
was invented by Pemberton told Griggs Candler
Dr. John the business to licensed the
Pemberton Asa Griggs bottling of Coca-
Candler Cola.
No obvious signal
word! But the
question gives the
hint that solutions to
the problem will be
followed by the
question
Is it worth spending time doing this?
Students
will be more familiar with different text
structures.
will gain a better understanding of how
ideas are organized in different text
structures.
will be able to apply their knowledge to
predict what they may read in the text.
will become more independent readers.
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An important point to note
Text connections should lead to text
comprehension.
Intervention is needed to prevent
students from being distracted from
the text
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Making Connections Cue Card
make sense of
the text by
using their
prior
knowledge
better
understand and
digest what they
read