VaSOL ELA 6.5 j- Organizational patterns

1. Getting ice cream home from the store on a hot day can be an issue because it can easily melt before you get home.  One way to prevent this is to put the ice cream container in an insulated cooler in your car while you drive home.

• 1. Comparison/Contrast

• 1. Cause/Effect

• 1. Problem/Solution

• 1. Spatial/Descriptive

1. Is it hot?  Are you ready for a delicious treat?  First, go to your freezer and grab your favorite frozen treat!  Then, scoop it into a bowl.  Finally, grab a spoon and enjoy—but not before topping it with chocolate sauce!

   1. Spatial/Descriptive c. Chronological

   2. Sequence/Process d. Enumeration

• 1. Spatial/

  2. Descriptive

• 1. Chronological

• 1. Sequence/

  2. Process

• 1. Enumeration

1. Although both ice cream and vegetables are considered food, ice cream is less healthy and eaten as a dessert.  Vegetables, however, are a side dish to a meal.

• 1. Comparison/

  2. Contrast

• 1. Cause/Effect

• 1. Problem/Solution

• 1. Spatial/

  2. Descriptive

1. Because the weather was warm, Joan’s ice cream melted before she had the chance to eat it and her hands became sticky.

• 1. Chronological

• 1. Problem/Solution

• 1. Comparison/

  2. Contrast

• 1. Cause-Effect

1. My mom asked me to go to the store, buy milk and bread, get Tammy from Soccer, and come home to make dinner.

• 1. Spatial/

  2. Descriptive

• 1. Chronological

• 1. Sequence/

  2. Process

• 1. Enumeration

1. Humpty Dumpty loved to eat ice cream.  One day, he was sitting on his wall and he dropped his ice cream cone.  Oh, no! he thought.  He bent over to pick it up and, soon after, fell right off the wall.

• 1. Chronological

• 1. Problem/Solution

• 1. Comparison/

  2. Contrast

• 1. Cause-Effect

Match the following

• since, then, because, if, when, so

• Problem & Solution

• Like, unlike, but both, also, similar to, different from

• Sequence

• because, since, the issue is, resolved by

• Cause & Effect

• to begin with, for instance, examples of, features include

• Compare & Contrast

• first, next, last, finally, before, after, during, meanwhile

• Description