Text Structure
What is text structure?
Text structure is the way an author organizes information in order to achieve a particular purpose.
The author intends to give the reader details and information about a certain topic.
To inform
Also acceptable:
Informative/Informational
What is connotation?
The implied meaning or emotional association of a word.
For what type of text structure would a Venn Diagram be helpful?
Compare and Contrast
Inform.
Which text structure shows the similarities and differences between two people, places, and things?
Compare and Contrast.
The author intends to convince the reader to do or believe something.
To persuade
Also acceptable:
Persuasive
Identify whether the word in italics has a positive, negative, or neutral connotation.
Timmy's parents forced him to clean his room.
Negative
What type of text structure might be based on a timeline?
Chronological
The author's purpose of a novel is to...
Entertain.
Which text structure organizes information in order of time?
Chronological Order.
The author intends to tell a story or amuse the reader in some way.
To entertain
Also acceptable:
Entertaining/Entertainment
Identify whether the word in italics has a positive, negative, or neutral connotation.
The new manager had an air of arrogance about him.
Negative
This type of text structure explains something that happened and why.
Cause and Effect
The author's purpose of a comic is to...
Entertain.
When would you use Sequence as a text structure in your writing?
Sequence is used show a process, to give a list of steps, or instruct the reader how to do something.
What is the author's purpose?
The Slim-O-Matic will cause you to lose pounds and inches from your body in one month. This amazing machine helps you to exercise correctly and provides and easy video to show you the proper way to exercise. Send $75.99 and begin exercising today!
To persuade.
A. Sally was always scrawny compared to other girls.
B. Sally was always slender compared to other girls.
B. Sally was always slender compared to other girls.
Slender has a positive connotation.
Scrawny has a negative connotation.
What would be the author's purpose behind a campaign speech?
To persuade.
Sequence.
The following passage is an example of which text structure?
“Earthquakes happen all over the world in areas called seismic zones. Seismic zones occur where the plates of crust covering the Earth’s surface meet each other. Inside the Earth, the mantle is always moving, which in turn moves the plates. These plates push against each other, building up tension between them. When the tension between plates becomes too great, they grind against each other, causing the Earth’s surface to tremble and shake.”
Robert Neumiller, Planet Earth, Creative Discoveries, 2001, p. 52
Cause and Effect.
Part 1: Identify whether the word in italics has a positive or negative.
Part 2: Provide a word with the opposite connotation.
Susan decided not to got with her friends because she was obsessed with getting good grades and wanted to stay home to study.
Part 1: Obsessed has a negative connotation.
Part 2: interested, wanted, focused, etc
In the passage below, what is the author's tone?
To make a delicious New England pie, proceed as follows: take some water and flour; then construct a bullet-proof dough. Make this into a disk-shaped object. Dry it for a couple of days in a mild temperature. Pour on stewed dried apples and slabs of citron; leave it in a safe place until it petrifies. Serve cold at breakfast and invite your mother-in-law.
Sarcastic.
The author's purpose of a public service announcement is to...
Persuade.