Intro to Text Structure

That evidence could be detailed or specific examples or events, but either way, the details need to support the bigger main idea. So let's say I'm writing this paragraph when I make this statement shopping and palisade center is terrible. If you disagree with me, you're certainly going to want to hear my evidence. You want to know my reasons, so I need to back up what I say. These become my supporting details. So there's my main idea. And let's say one detail, it's too crowded, parking is bad. It's unsafe, but all of these details here have to be about this main idea that shopping at palisade center is terrible. Now I can take this same relationship or structure and show it using a graphic organizer such as a web. The relationship is exactly the same. Hereby details and they're supporting this bigger main idea. I'm just showing it a different way. But we very rarely read just one paragraph at a time. Reread passages that are groups of paragraphs together or sections of a textbook that have more than one paragraph. These passages are like essays. So every essay has to contain three basic parts. I'm going to have an introduction. A body and a conclusion. Now the majority of the details that I'm going to read are presented to me in the body paragraphs. So I want to think back to that basic structure of a paragraph from before. And that's what I'm going to see in my body. So here's body paragraph number one. Okay. 

Paragraph one in the body. Main idea in supporting details. Second body paragraph has mean ideas supporting details. The third body paragraph has main idea and supporting details. So now I have more than one paragraph in the body, what's the purpose of an introduction? Well, besides attracting the reader's attention or establishing background knowledge, it really should introduce or state the main idea of my essay. I have to have some kind of bigger idea that can connect the main ideas of these other paragraphs. That's the main idea of my assay. So now my structure looks like this. Here's the main idea. And all of these need to come up and support the main idea of my essay. What I realized now is that if there's a main idea to the SI, there need to be details that support this main idea up here. So the main idea for each body paragraph also has the job of being a supporting detail for the main idea of the essay. So it has two jobs. It's the main idea for this paragraph. It's a supporting detail for this main idea. Now, if we add Roman numerals and capital letters, we can actually see where the structure for an outline comes from. And I can take the same structure and put it in graphic organizer form, just like I did before. 

So here is my one paragraph, paragraph main idea, and supporting details. Well, now I've got three body paragraphs. And these main ideas support the main idea of the SI. So let's go back to our problem. The teacher said, read and highlight what's important. Well, if I'm reading a single paragraph, I'm going to ask myself, what's the most important idea in this paragraph? And then what are the bigger ideas that support it? If I'm reading a passage or an assay, what I need to do is find the main idea for each paragraph. And I could highlight it. I could write it on a post it. Or I could put it in the margin. Once I've collected the main ideas for each paragraph, now I'm going to find the bigger idea that those detail support. And I'd actually be able to write a summary. Now, you still may be stuck. I still have a hard time finding what's important, though, is there another tool. Yes, what we'll see is that there are specific text structures or patterns of organizations that authors use to organize their ideas. Those basic text structures include problem and solutions. Description, sequence or time order, cause and effect, or comparison and contrast. 

There are others as well, but will probably focus on those 5. We'll have separate videos to explain each one of these tech structures in more detail. So I hope this video helped you. If you could email me at M chrome Berg and then you would ask D dot org, put intro to text structures to subject and let me know if the video was helpful or what questions you still have. I'd appreciate any feedback you could give me so I can help them to make these resources better for you. Thanks for your time and I hope that this was helpful.