Text Structure

A way you can remember this chrono is an older Latin word for time and logic actually means order. So it's time order. Let's look at these examples below. First box says Jack and Jill right up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Second box. Jack fell down and broke his crown. Third box, Jill came tumbling after. Well, it's very obvious that all of these stories are told chronologically because one thing happens first before the other. They are told in time order. The second type of text structure we're going to see is cause and effect. Cause and effect is when an action and its results are explained. So let's look at this example of a cause. Students did not study their material. Okay, well, what's the effect of that? What happens if students don't study their material? They perform poorly on the test. Do not confuse this with chronological because it doesn't have much to do with time. What it has to do with is the result of something. It won't have a beginning middle and end. Positive effect has to do with is an event, and then the result of that specific event. The third type of text structure is compare and contrast. When we compare and contrast things, it tells us how two things are similar and different.

Now, let's think of two things that maybe people might confuse with similarities and differences. Bananas and oranges. And here today we have IS two two 8 favorite para mister S. Now as you can see, mister S is holding a banana and an orange. Now, we're going to do is compare and contrast the two fruits. Let's look back at the PowerPoint. Banana and oranges are alike because they both are fruits, and they both have skin, but there is a difference between them. Oranges have more juice. So even though mister S is holding both the banana and our interests are both fruits, there are differences between them, which is why we can compare and contrast the two fruits. The next type of text structure we are going to look at is problem and solution. A problem and answer our suggested in this type of text structure. Let's look at the examples. If the problem is property is being spray painted, the solution must be that it requires a license to buy spray paint. 

Now, do not confuse this with cause and effect. Cause and effect doesn't necessarily have to have a problem. But probably when solution, obviously, has to have a problem and an answer to it. It is presented always as a problem and how to fix that problem. The next type of text structure we're going to be looking at is sequence or process. Information is listed step by step. And explains how to do it or how it happens. Let's look at this example. The first step to making an omelet is that you crack a few eggs. The second step, you add the cheese. The third set, you cook on one side, and the fourth and final step, you flip the omelet. Do not confuse this with chronological, because chronological isn't necessarily steps that need to happen. But sequence or process is a step that needs to be followed. One after the other. This does not occur at any specific time, but it does need to be followed in the same way that you see it. 

Now let's try this on LightSail today. Now let's take a look at the book speak that we've been working with for the past several weeks. We're on the chapter titled homework and looking at page 16. I order my dinner at three ten and eat it on the white couch. I don't know which parent was having seizures when they brought that couch. The trick to eating on it is to turn the messy side of the cushions up. The couch has two personalities. Melinda inhaling pepperoni and mushroom, and no one ever eats in the family room. No ma'am. I chow and watch TV until I hear dad's cheap in the driveway. Flip flip flip. Cushions reverse to show they're pretty white cheeks. Then, bolts upstairs. By the time that unlocks the door, everything looks the way he wants to see it. And I have vanished. So your job in this is to find a tech structure in your reading. 

Once you've found a text structure, you're going to highlight that paragraph or sentence. Click think, identify the text structure and then explain why you believe it is that text structure. As you can see, I filled in the mind thinking section by identifying the text structure and why it is the text structure. I wrote chronological. This paragraph demonstrates a chronological structure because the narrator explains what she does while eating in the order that the events occur. So now after I have wrote this down, I'm going to click on shore. Hit done. Now try this on your light sale today.