How do you organize what you learn in a nonfiction text?

1. How do you organize what you learn in a nonfiction text?

2. In this lesson you will learn how to organize information by using text structure clues.

3. Text Structure: The style an author uses to organize their writing

4. Some students don’t pay attention to the text structure.

6. 1700s • invented in Italy • not many toppings • fisherman ate it • Today • many kinds • Americans eat billions of slices a year • 1900s • came to America • sold in slices • deep dish invented in Chicago

7. 1 • Look for text structure clues. 2 • Make categories for the information you are learning.

8. In this lesson you have learned to organize information by using text structure clues.

9. Read “The Great Chicago Fire.” Identify the text structure and use sticky notes to make categories for information.

10. Find an example of nonfiction written in each of these text structures: • time order • narrative • compare and contrast • cause and effect.

11. Write down the clues you would look for in order to identify a time order text structure.