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Text Organization

Click to continue. Text Organization. Read each selection, then decide how the author organized the text. Click to return to passage. Click to continue. Click to continue. Instructions. To advance to the next slide, click only on areas like or

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Text Organization

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  1. Click to continue Text Organization Read each selection, then decide how the author organized the text.

  2. Click to return to passage Click to continue Click to continue Instructions • To advance to the next slide, click only on areas like or • On multiple choice questions, click on the answer of your choice.

  3. Click to continue Here are ways authors organize text: • Compare and Contrast • Cause and Effect • Sequence of Events • Question and Answer • Problem and Solution

  4. Click to continue Directions • Read each passage carefully. • Choose the best answer. • At any time you can go back and reread a passage.

  5. Click to continue Passage 1 “With radios people could listen to music and news. Radios also brought sporting events from around the country into people’s homes. Like radio, the movies began before the 1920s. But early movies were silent. It was during the 1920s that movies got sound. The Jazz Singer, shown in 1927, was the first movie with voices. Within three years, millions of people were going to “talkies,” or movies with sound, each week.

  6. Click to continue Both radio and the movies brought a common culture to the people of the United States. For the first time, people from Maine to California could hear the same music and the same shows on the radio. Americans could also learn what life was like in other parts of the United States.” Harcourt Horizon Social Studies, p 287

  7. Click to return to passage Question 1-A • How is the text organized? A. cause and effect B. compare and contrast C. question and answer D. sequence of events

  8. Click to continue Correct!

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  10. Click to return to passage Question 1-B: Which statement describes radios? Radios Movies • People listened to news, music, and sports • People watched AND listened to entertainment • Both brought a common culture to the U.S.

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  13. Click to return to passage Question 1-C: Which statement describes movies? Radios Movies People listened to news, music, and sports • People listened to news, music, and sports • People watched AND listened to entertainment • Both brought a common culture to the U.S.

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  16. Click to return to passage Question 1-D: Which statement describes both radios and movies? Radios Movies People listened to People watched AND news, music, and listened to sports entertainment • People listened to news, music, and sports • People watched AND listened to entertainment • Both brought a common culture to the U.S.

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  19. Click to continue Comparing and Contrasting Radios Movies Both People listened to brought People watched AND news, music, and a common listened to sports culture to entertainment the U.S. • People listened to news, music, and sports • People watched AND listened to entertainment • Both brought a common culture to the U.S.

  20. Click to continue Passage 2: Read this excerpt from a play about the American Revolution. Setting: Boston, the evening of April 18, 175. Joseph Warren, a patriot leader, knocks on the door of Paul Revere’s house. Joseph Warren: Paul, the British are headed to Concord. Lieutenant Colonel Smith and 700 of his troops have been commanded to arrest John Adams and John Hancock for treason. Paul Revere: Adams and Hancock must be warned! Joseph Warren: I want you and Dawes to ride to Lexington tonight. Paul Revere: The patriots in Concord must be alerted. Arrange for a signal to be sent from the steeple of the Old North Church in Boston. Flash two lanterns if the British are coming by water. Flash one if they are coming by land. I am off now to find Dawes. Harcourt Trophies pg 647

  21. Click to return to passage Question 2-A How is the text organized? A. cause and effect B. compare and contrast C. question and answer D. sequence of events

  22. Click to continue Great Job!

  23. Click to try again Sorry! Fix your mistake

  24. Click to return to passage Question 2-B Which is the cause and which is the effect? Choose the cause. • Revere rides to warn them • The British will arrest Adams and Hancock for treason.

  25. Click to continue Great Job!

  26. Click to try again Sorry! Fix your mistake

  27. Question 2-C Given the cause, which is the effect? Cause Effect The British will arrest Adams and Hancock for treason. • Revere rides to warn them • The British will arrest Adams and Hancock for treason.

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  30. Click to continue Passage 3: Read this passage about World War 2. “German forces stormed across Europe with unbelievable speed, taking over Denmark in a matter of hours and Norway in a matter of weeks. German troops next conquered Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium. German forces then attacked France. Germany’s planes dropped bombs on France’s cities and countryside for hours at a time, and France soon surrendered.” Harcourt Horizons Social Studies pg 336

  31. Click to return to passage Question 3-A How did the author organize this text? A. cause and effect B. compare and contrast C. question and answer D. sequence of events

  32. Click to continue Excellent answer!

  33. Click to try again Not this answer Go back and look at it again.

  34. Click to return to passage Question 3-B What sequence (time order) words did the passage contain? A. with, in a matter of B. next, then C. stormed across, attacked, dropped

  35. Click to continue Excellent answer!

  36. Click to try again Not this answer Go back and look at it again.

  37. Click to continue Passage 3: Read this passage about World War 2. “German forces stormed across Europe with unbelievable speed, taking over Denmark in a matter of hours and Norway in a matter of weeks. German troops nextconquered Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium. German forces then attacked France. Germany’s planes dropped bombs on France’s cities and countryside for hours at a time, and France soon surrendered.” Harcourt Horizons Social Studies pg 336

  38. Click to continue Passage 4: Read this passage about an interview with a scientist. Talking with Dr. Margaret Lowman Prentice Hall: “How much do insects consume?” Dr. Lowman: “One dramatic discovery was in the rain forest of Australia. Every spring something was eating up to 50 percent of the young leaves of the Antarctic beech trees and then mysteriously disappearing. I watched the trees for two years before I was able to capture the beetle larvae that were responsible for the damage.” (from Prentice Hall Science Explorer pg. 2)

  39. Click to return to passage Question 4-A • What is the text organization for this passage? A. cause and effect B. compare and contrast C. question and answer D. sequence of events

  40. Click to continue Terrific! That was a tough one.

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  42. Done! You’ve finished the text organization practice!

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