Evaluate how effectively an author uses structures of informational texts, including comparison and contrast, problem and solution, cause and effect, and substantiated or unsubstantiated claims and evidence, to achieve a purpose.
Arizona Academic Standards:
7.RI.5
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RI.7.5
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE7RI5
Tennessee Academic Standards:
7.RI.CS.5
Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
California Common Core State Standards:
RI.7.5
Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas. a. Analyze the use of text features (e.g., graphics, headers, captions) in public documents.
Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks:
RI.7.5
Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections and text features (e.g., headings) contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
7.10.C*
use different organizational patterns as guides for summarizing and forming an overview of different kinds of expository text
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.2.7.E
Analyze the structure of the text through evaluation of the author’s use of graphics, charts, and the major sections of the text
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
E07.B-C.2.1.2
Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how major sections and text features contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.7.R.2.1
Explain how individual text sections and/or features convey a purpose in texts.
Arkansas Academic Standards:
7.RC.12.RI
Describe how the major sections of a text influence the overall structure and development of ideas, themes, or arguments.
7th Grade Reading - Text Structure Lesson
Text Structure
Authors organize passages in certain ways to help readers better understand the text. This is called text structure.
Here are five types of text structures an author may use in a passage:
Chronology – when a passage is written in the order of when the events happened or will happen
Comparison – when a passage is written to compare events, ideas, people, things, etc.
Cause and Effect – when a passage shows how one thing (the cause) created, or led to, another (the effect)
Problem and Solution – when a passage shows a problem and tells the reader how to fix it (the solution)
Proposition and Support - when a passage presents an idea or a claim and supports it with reasons, details, and examples