When you read, it is helpful to understand how the author arranged the information. The way the author arranged the writing is the text structure. Some text structures are: sequence, the time order in which things happen; compare and contrast, similarities and differences of facts, characters, events; description, how someone or something looks, acts, or sounds; problem and solution, what the problem was and how it was solved; cause and effect, what happened and why it happened.
In the book you are currently reading, look to see how the author has arranged the text. Discuss one text structure that the author used and explain how it helped you understand the meaning of the text (paragraph or passage).
(CT Standard: Using Text Structures: identify, use, and analyze text structures.)
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In one book that I read a few weeks ago, The Song of the Sparrow, the author used a very interesting text structure for the book. The text structure he used was poetry. This helped give the book its shape and theme. It also helped the book with its setting and time, since most of the events in the novel happened around the King Aurther time period. I personally liked it a lot because it was something different and comfortable to read.
(Gabby S)
I think Eragon was a really good book and it's a book I would read again. Right when I finished the book I went straight to the movie theaters and saw it. I thought they were both even because they both were really good. For a person like me that's rare to like a book because I usually hate books and I never like to read. If you haven't read this story, I would go to the library and check it out now.
Dante S.
One of the books I read a while ago was Eragon, now I'm reading Eldest but between those two books one character didn't get mentioned until the second book after he left town in the beginning. That person was Roran, Eragon's cousin. He left to go work but he didn't come back until the second book.
Hannah ♥j☺y
I just finished reading the second book in the sisterhood of traveling pants series. I think that I was a pretty good book. The author does an interesting thing where she has one of the characters talking then switches off to another. Every time she switches off there is a pattern that looks similar to this one:
writing. So you know every time that it is going to a different person. Sometimes the author will just separate the girls talking by a few spaces. It depends how the page is laid out. Also sometimes when the girls write to each other, the author will put a different font to look like someone’s hand-writing.
In the begining of the year, I read the books Uglies, Pretties, and Specials. These books all use the same type of text structure. Everytime the character is about to go on a big adventure, they move on from Part I to Part II. I think it is interesting that the author chose to spilt his book in half, but I also think this adds an element of surpirse and mystery to the writing.
-ALIM.-
In Harry Potter, there is a lot of cause and effect text structure. For example, Harry will do something such as saying a funny comment in class, and as a result, Gryfindor will lose points in the competition. Harry is very brave and sometimes the effect isn't a good thing. This is just one of the many examples of cause and effect, however, this one doesn't show bravery but talking before you think.
(Stephen D.)
The book I am rading now,"Cathy's Book", has a journal/diary entry text structure to it. I actually enjoy this because it feels like I am living the character's life and I can feel her emotions. It also has this wierd structure that is a little confusing. In her journal, Cathy writes a story. After her story, she talks about the incident like she really did it and it is hard to tell if she wrote it in the story or did that in real life. It is pretty different,though, so I like it a little bit.
(Gabby S)
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