Text Structure
This is the type of text structure you use when you want to show an issue and how it was fixed.
Keywords would include: dilemma, correct, as a result, solve
What is Problem & Solution?
Title, captions, first and last sentence.
These are examples of what?
Persuade, Inform, and Entertain
What is a claim? And what must someone have alongside a claim?
Something that the author believes to be true. It must be supported by evidence.
In the Dark Ages, people often dealt with terrible living conditions and a lack of education. These conditions happened for many years, and eventually this led to it becoming a hotbed for disease and illness. In the 1300's, the Black Plague struck Europe, wiping out a large swathe of the population. As a result of this, in the years after, as the country had more wealth to share, the arts increased and education expanded. This period would eventually become known as 'The Renaissance,' the rebirth.
What text structure is this?
Cause and effect
This text structure shows how things are similar or different from one another
Key Words include: alike, also, similarly, on the other hand, however
What is Compare & Contrast?
What the text is mostly about
What key words might give away that they author's purpose is to persuade?
Should, must, have to
List 3 types of evidence
statistics, professionals, organizations, examples, primary sources, videos/pictures
Amelia Earhart was in important woman in history. She was the very first woman to fly a plane around the world. Before that, she was the first female passenger to make a nonstop transatlantic flight. She advocated for women's rights and was an inspiration for girls everywhere. She started a division of women's pilots and encouraged women everywhere to embrace adventure. She eventually vanished on a flight, and became a source of speculation.
What is the central idea of this text?
Amelia Earhart was a famous female pilot and women's rights activist
This text structure shows how one thing leads to another
Key Words include: as a result, then, consequently, because of this
What is Cause & Effect?
How do you determine if the relevant detail supports the central idea? What should you look for?
The key words need to match with the central idea
To inform
What does the question:
"How does the author support the claim that..."
expect you to identify?
Evidence that supports whatever the claim is
"It is for these reasons that we as Americans must stand by our veterans and make sure they are provided with elite medical and metal health care. 11% of our homeless population is made up of veterans that fought for our freedom. If we do not stand by them now, we must live with the knowledge that we do not deserve the country that has been bestowed upon us."
What is the author's purpose? What is their goal?
Purpose: to persuade
Goal: to get medical and mental health care for veterans.
This is the text structure that you're probably only going to find in paragraphs, not the entire text.
Key words include: for example, for instance
What is Description?
What are the keywords in the question:
"Which two relevant details support the central idea that the development of language helped humans survive and develop culture?"
Key words: language, helped humans, survive, culture, and TWO
(If you got everything except for two, you're STILL WRONG.)
A speech is typically written for what purpose?
To persuade
Identify the key words in this question:
"Which two details help develop the claim that corn was a major crop for indigenous Americans?"
Key words: corn, major crop, indigenous Americans, TWO
(If you don't include two, you are NOT correct.)
The black footed cat is one of the smallest, and cutest, cat species in the world. It's also the most deadly. Black footed cats have a successful kill rate of 60%. Lions, by comparison, have a kill rate of 25%.
Identify the claim and the one piece of evidence that best supports this claim.
Claim: Black footed cats are the most deadly cat species
Evidence: Successful kill rate of 60%
This is the text structure that's made up of two root words.
Key Words include: then, next, later, now
What is Chronological?
If the question asks "How does the author develop the central idea that forest fires are good for the environment?" what should you be looking for in the relevant details? What are the key words in the question?
Something good happening for the environment.
Key words: forest fires, good for, environment
If a text states:
"Unfortunately, this had the unintended consequence of slowing down the development of the community."
What is the author's perspective on this? What are the TWO key words that give this away?
They don't think it's a good thing/they think it's bad
Key words: Unfortunately, consequence
Give an example of a claim
(teachers determines)
Plot events:
"Anna saw it and immediately cringed away. It's beady eyes seemed to look right at her, and it's forked tongue flickered out, like it wanted to taste her fear."
"Every day, she passed the tank the class pet was being kept in. It was small, and they fed it crickets, but she knew it would eventually grown big enough to eat mice. She shuddered at the image."
"Today, it was sunning itself on a rock under the heat lamp. She was going to move past it as quickly as possible, but then she realized its expression was almost the same one her cat made when it was sitting in the sun. Weird."
"She inched a little closer to the glass. It turned to look at her. She wrinkled her nose, but shuffled forward. It tilted its head to the side as it regarded her. She guessed it was kind of cute."
"When the teacher asked for volunteers to clean the class pet's cage, Anna looked around and realized the everyone else was looking away from the teacher and shifting uncomfortably. She looked back at the tank. It was looking back at her. Its tongue flickered out. Tentatively, Anna raised her hand."
Questions:
What is the class pet?
How does the author develop Anna's perspective of the course of this text?
1) a snake
2) The author shows Anna being afraid of the snake at first, and then feeling a little better about it, and then finally being accepting of it.