Text Structures - MalalaLecture

DEFINITIONS: Which text structure is described by the following:

An author presents information about events or steps in a process in the order in which they have taken place.

• Cause & Effect

• Sequential (Chronological)

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• Comparison & Contrast

DEFINITIONS: Which text structure is described by the following:

Authors who specialize in history or science often use this structure to explain HOW or WHY something happened.

• Cause & Effect

• Sequential (Chronological)

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• Comparison & Contrast

DEFINITIONS: Which text structure is described by the following:

An author uses this structure to present information about ideas that are different, but have something in common (such as two points of view on a single subject).

• Cause & Effect

• Sequential (Chronological)

• Problem & Solution

• Comparison & Contrast

KEY IDEAS: Which text structure might uses phrases such as: "the question is," "one answer is"

• Cause & Effect

• Sequential (Chronological)

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KEY IDEAS: Which text structure is most connected with STORYTELLING?

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• Sequential (Chronological)

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MALALA LECTURE EXAMPLE: Which text structure is MOST represented the following:

"Dear sisters and brothers, today, in half of the world, we see rapid progress and development. However, there are many countries where millions still suffer from the very old problems of war, poverty, and injustice." (Yousafzai 4)

• Cause & Effect

• Sequential (Chronological)

• Problem & Solution

• Comparison & Contrast

MALALA LECTURE EXAMPLE: Which text structure is MOST represented the following:

"In my own village, there is still no secondary school for girls. And it is my wish and my commitment, and now my challenge to build one so that my friends and my sisters can go there to school and get quality education and to get this opportunity to fulfil their dreams." (Yousafzai 4)

• Cause & Effect

• Sequential (Chronological)

• Problem & Solution

• Comparison & Contrast

MALALA LECTURE EXAMPLE: Which text structure is MOST represented the following:

"But things did not remain the same. When I was in Swat, which was a place of tourism and beauty, suddenly changed into a place of terrorism. I was just ten when more than 400 schools were destroyed. Women were flogged. People were killed. And our beautiful dreams turned into nightmares.

Education went from being a right to being a crime.

Girls were stopped from going to school."

(Yousafzai 1)

• Cause & Effect

• Sequential (Chronological)

• Problem & Solution

• Comparison & Contrast

MALALA LECTURE EXAMPLE: Which text structure is MOST represented the following:

" Many children in Africa do not have access to education because of poverty" (Yousafzai 4)

• Cause & Effect

• Sequential (Chronological)

• Problem & Solution

• Comparison & Contrast

MALALA LECTURE EXAMPLE: Which text structure is MOST represented the following:

"Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics" (Yousafzai 5)

• Cause & Effect

• Sequential (Chronological)

• Problem & Solution

• Comparison & Contrast