1. Welcome!
Language Arts
Ms. Marek
Tuesday-Wednesday, February
7-8, 2012

2. Independent Reading
Retrieve your library book
READ READ READ READ
READ READ READ

3. Schedule
Monday Quiz
Tuesday Data / Organization
Wednesday Organization
Thursday Organization
Friday Bias
• Quiz on MONDAY – review vocab

4. OBJECTIVE
SWBAT identify
organizational patterns
in a text and analyze
author’s use of
organizational pattern

5. Essential Question
 How does understanding the way the
author arranges or organizes the text
better help me understand what I am
reading?

6. Compare and Contrast
 the writer finds the similarities and differences of two
subjects in a story. The two main methods are block
and point by point.
 There are two methods that authors use when
they write.
– Block Method: The writer first discusses all the
features of subject 1, then all the features of
subject 2.
– Point-by-Point Method: The writer discuses one
feature of each subject at a time. The writer chooses a
feature and shows how it applies to subject 1, then
how it applies to subject 2. The writer continues to
discuss other features and how they apply to each
subject in turn.

7. Compare and Contrast
Ask yourself these questions
 “How are two items similar?”
 “How are two items different?”

8. Compare and Contrast
 Similarly,  however,
 like,  instead
 the same as,  nevertheless
 compared to,  on the contrary..
 in the same way
 Likewise…
 but,
 yet,
 on the other hand

9. Cause and Effect
 An organizational pattern that is built
around a series of causes and effects.
Each event causes another event to
happen. The event it causes is called an
effect.
 Ask yourself these questions …
– Why did something happen?”
– What were the results of a particular
event?

10. Cause and Effect
 Because  consequently
 for this reason  Therefore,
 due to  thus,
 cause,  in effect
 On account of  resulting,
 if this  and the outcome is...
 then this…
 as a result
 since,

11. Chronological Order
 An organizational pattern that begins
with the earliest events and continues in
the order that the events happened.
 Ask yourself these questions …
– “When did it happen?”
– “In what order did it happen?”

12. Chronological Order
 First
 Second
 Next
 then
 Finally
 Eventually
 Following this

13. Logical Order / Spatial Order
 An organizational pattern in which the
writer tells the story in the order that
makes the most sense.

14. Main Idea / Details
 The author includes a main idea and then
supports this idea with details
 This is the most common of all our
organizational structures

15. Example 1
 Prick the spaghetti squash all over with
a skewer so it will not burst while
Chronological
baking.
 Place whole squash in a shallow baking
pan. Order
 Bake in preheated 375 F oven for 1
hour

16. Example 2
Team UPenn scored 97% proficient
Compare
and advanced on FAST 2, but Team
Cal Tech scored 83% proficient and
and
advanced.
Contrast

17. Example 3
 This diagram would be used for …
Compare
and
Contrast

18. Example 4
 This diagram would be used for …
Chronological
Order

19. Example 5
From “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian”
Rowdy has protected me since we were born. Both of us
were pushed into world on November 5, 1992, at Sacred
Heart Hospital in Spokane. I’m two hours older than Rowdy.
I was born all broken and twisted, and he was born mad. He
was always crying and screaming and kicking and punching.
He bit his mother’s breast when she tried to nurse him. He
kept biting her, so she gave up and fed him formula. He
really hasn’t changed since then.
A. Order
B. Main idea
C. Summary
D. Compare and contrast

20. Example 6
Read the following paragraph. Determine the main ideas as you read
and then fill in the chronological order chart in your class notes!
The Olympic Games began as athletic festivals to honor the
Greek gods. The most important festival was held in the
valley of Olympia to honor Zeus, the king of the gods. It was
this festival that became the Olympic games in 776 B.C.
These games were ended in A.D. 394 by the Roman
Emperor who ruled Greece. No Olympic games were held for
more than 1,500 years. Then the modern Olympics began in
1896. Almost 300 male athletes competed in the first modern
Olympics. In the games held in 1900, female athletes were
allowed to compete. The games have continued every four
years since 1896 except during World War II, and they will
most likely continue for many years to come.

21. Example 7
Timmy and Joe decided to sell lemonade outside their house for a
quarter per cup. First, they got the ingredients and mixed up their
beverage. Then, they sat out at the end of the driveway and waited
for customers. It started to get colder and the boys realized they
weren’t going to have much business. Next, they ran inside the house
and made a batch of hot chocolate, instead. They grabbed their coats
and then ran out the door with their new merchandise.
1. Which text structure does the author use in this passage?
A. Main Ideas
B. Description
C. Chronological
D. Compare and contrast
2. Explain your reasoning to the answer you chose for Question
1 in your class notes. Use complete sentences and evidence
from the text to explain your answer!

22. Election 2012
 On a separate piece of paper answer these questions
…
 What is the author’s purpose for writing this article?
How do you know and why?
 Who is the intended audience for this article? How do
you know and why?
 What is the overall organizational structure for this
article? How do you know and why?
 Compare and contrast (using a venn diagram)
Democrats and Republicans.

23. REMINDERS
READ READ READ!
Start thinking about a book you
want to read.
READ READ READ!