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Understanding Text Structure - Coggle Diagram
Understanding Text Structure
For Reader
Architectural Shape
It helps students think about the implicatios
the paragraph indention signals a shift
one way to begin a consideration of structure
Idea Chunking
clustering and chunking of ideas on a similar topic
author often use headings to help readers recognize different content chunks.
content text chunks might contain multiple paragraphs
Organizational Patterns
Spatial Organization
structural strategy of description
help students to think of the
ways in which a movie camera records a scene
to transfer a verbal description to a visual mental
image.
Chronological Organization
organizational structure of narration
Stories—even brief
anecdotes—use time, presenting the beginning, middle, and end of an event
Logical Organization
the structures of analysis: process, enumeration, classification, partto-whole, problem and solution, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and definition.
helps student recognize three main organizational patterns they will encounter in their reading
For Writter
provide them with opportunities to apply those structures in their own writing
Organizational Pattern
Help students see how they might present some content using one organizational structure
turn
to another structure to develop their discussion further
they might begin a discussion of an
environmental pollution problem in their town with a physical description of the site using spatial organization
Idea Chunking
might use as they respond to the following passage and EPT prompt
Architectural Shape
Authentic text structures are organic
They emerge from the
confluence of content, purpose, and audience
Writers structure texts to accommodate the kinds of content they wish to present as well as to emphasize
certain points