Reading and Writing

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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

Recognize a variety of text structures.
Analyze the use of text structures to achieve specific purposes.

I can:

Recognize a variety of text structures.
Analyze the use of text structures to achieve specific purposes.
(create your own)

Just like buildings need a structure - so do texts. Otherwise they can fall apart.

Today, we will close read parts of our non- fiction text called "The Science Behind Sight", we will focus on text structure and discuss why text structure is important.

Text structure is how the ideas in a text or organized. Authors may use one text structure for the whole text or a variety of structures within a text, depending on their purpose and the information they are presenting.