Organizational+Patterns



=Catch the Reading Bug!!!! =

Organizational Patterns Every text is organized into one of the following patterns: Compare/contrast, time order, problem/solution, classification, description, and cause/effect. Student familiarity with these patterns in text greatly enhances comprehension and learning. Knowing which is being used helps the reader to: Locate information in the text, differentiate between what is important and unimportant, mentally sequence the main ideas in a logical order, synthesize ideas that appear in different location in the text, link new information to what is already known, and restructure and revise prior knowledge to take into account new information pattern.   Practice: [|Cause and Effect] [|Which way?] [|Sequence Game] [|Cause and Effect II] [|Classification]