English Language Arts and Reading.5.10.B

The student is expected to

analyze how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;

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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.

Using information from an anchor chart that was created by the class as a text was read aloud, ask students to analyze the structure of the information using the anchor chart. Then, have students explain why the author may have decided to organize the text in such a way.

If the text structure is cause and effect, the anchor chart might look like this:

Cause

Effect

Because___ happened,

then ____ happened.

Because___ happened,

then ____ happened.

Because___ happened,

then ____ happened.

Because___ happened,

then ____ happened.

 

Further Explanation

This assessment requires students to describe how an author organizes ideas in a text to accomplish a particular purpose. Students should be able to explain how the text structure helps the author achieve the purpose.

to detect how the component parts of a passage or text relate to one another and aid understanding This may include identifying the parts, studying the relationship among parts, and recognizing the organizational principles involved. Learning outcomes present a higher intellectual level than comprehension and application because they require an understanding of both the content and structural form of the material.
When students analyze text structure, they are expected to determine how an author organizes ideas in a text to accomplish a specific purpose. For example, in a writing piece that deals with historical events, the author may use a structure that present events in a sequential form and also organizes the information in a cause-and-effect pattern. By doing this, the author may want readers to understand how certain historical and political circumstances triggered a series of events.
Students are expected to analyze how the author’s purpose has a specific effect on readers. Authors write for diverse reasons. If the purpose is to entertain the readers, an author might choose to write a narrative or story. However, if the goal is to convince a reader to believe an idea or take a course of action, the author will likely use persuasive writing.
the organizational pattern or structure authors use to construct and organize ideas for their audience (e.g., cause and effect, problem and solution, description, order of importance)

Research

Gorman, R., & Eastman, G.S. (2010). I see what you mean: Using visuals to teach metaphoric thinking in reading and writing. The English Journal, 100(1), 92-99. Retrieved from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ896467

Summary:  This article provides instructional strategies that analyze images as a way to improve students' reading and writing skills.