TEKS 5.9D iii: Logical Order
Organizational Patterns
About this lesson
Learning Target: I can recognize different organizational patterns in informational texts.
Focuses On:
- Identifying the structural pattern used in an informational text
- Determining how the structure helps the reader understand the text
Builds On:
4.9Diii
Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including: organizational patterns such as compare and contrast.
Next Level:
6.8Diii
Analyze characteristics and structural elements of informational text, including: organizational patterns such as definition, classification, advantage, and disadvantage.
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This lesson is designed to support student understanding of the different organizational patterns used in informational text and how these patterns can help the reader better understand the text. Students begin by completing sentences with the best transition and answering questions about cause and effect and comparisons.
The two instructional blocks in this lesson focus on the structures of informational texts, why those structures were chosen by the author, and how the structures clearly communicate information to the reader. In the first instructional block students are introduced to the compare and contrast, cause and effect, chronological order, and order of importance organizations structures. Students then identify what structure is used in a variety of passages.
In the second instructional block students analyze the reason the structure was chosen and how it effects the information given to the reader.
Passages are intentionally built throughout the lesson to support deeper understanding and allow students to practice the skill in context.
Grade 5ELARTEKS 5.9D iii