Text Structures
Patterns of Organization
Elements of Plot
Which Author's Purpose?
Miscellanious Reading Terms
100
This tells you what the whole article will be about.
What is the title?
100
This lists both the similarities and differences of two or more things.
What is compare and contrast?
100
Here, we are introduced to the setting, characters, and conflict.
What is "exposition?"
100
Adrian is writing a letter to the school board to convince them that uniforms shouldn't be allowed.
What is to persuade?
100
This is the lesson found in a story.
What is the theme?
200
This tells you what a specific section of an article is going to be about.
What is a heading/subheading.
200
This would best be used in a biography.
What is chronological order?
200
This is the turning point of a story.
What is the climax?
200
Mr. Bannan writes a joke book.
What is to entertain?
200
This is a sentence that tells you what a story or article is about.
What is the main idea?
300
This gives information about an image.
What is a caption?
300
This would best be used when making a recipe.
What is sequence/process?
300
"In the middle of the story, after stealing a diamond, Jimmy runs from the police." This is an example of a certain element of plot.
What is the rising action?
300
Tiffany writes a biography about one of her favorite artists.
What is to inform?
300
These back up the main idea.
What are supporting details?
400
This presents information in an easy-to-read format.
What is a bulleted list?
400
This pattern of organization lists a term and explains it in more detail.
term/definition
400
These are the events that lead up to the ending.
What is the falling action?
400
A reporter writes an article about the money the fishing industry makes in Virginia.
What is to inform?
400
One or two words describe the focus of what you are reading.
What is the topic?
500
This presents additional information in a box on the side or bottom of an article.
What is a sidebar?
500
This pattern of organization says that all things behave a certain way based on observing a few things behaving that way.
What is generalization?
500
"And they lived happily ever after" is an example of this element of plot.
What is the resolution?
500
Olivia writes a story about the time she was trapped in a car with her family on a long drive.
What is to entertain?
500
You make these by using evidence from the text and combining them with background knowledge.
What are inferences?
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