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Common Core Literature 3: How do Readers Organize Ideas in a Text?
welcome to on-demand instructions video
about the strategies and organizing
ideas in a text this presentation is
based on the common core standards in
literature we will cover common core
literature standard 3 to analyze how the
author unfolds an analysis or series of
ideas or events including the order in
which the points are made how they are
introduced and developed and the
connections that are drawn between them
here we're going to define the different
types of organizational strategies for
text find out when each type of
organization is useful and learn to
identify these organizational strategies
in a text based on previous discussions
we already know that texts have a main
idea and several supporting ideas
however the main and supporting ideas
can be arranged in different ways in a
text we also know that transitions can
be used to indicate relationships
between ideas and tell us how the ideas
of a text are linked writers can
organize ideas in a text in different
ways the general to specific
organization begins with a general
statement followed by specific examples
this organization is very common and
quite easy to spot as a general
statement is often followed by specific
details the general statement serves as
the topic sentence of that particular
text here are some examples of
transitions that can be used writers can
also use an opposite strategy specific
to general organization writers start
with specific details and sum it up with
a main idea the main idea makes a
summary of what the details in the
preceding ideas add up to in the
chronological or sequential organization
the ideas are presented in sequence
these sentences usually talk about a
single event in the sentences are
arranged such that the events are
presented in the order that they
happened should happen or will happen
the chronological sequential
organization is used to walk a reader
through a process or a series of events
and transitions are often used to keep
of which event comes first the cause and
effect organization divides text into
two parts it may start with the clause
enlist the subsidy and then list the
subsequent effects it made also start
with start with the effects and proceed
to give the clauses either way it
explains the reason the reasons behind
events and also the results of certain
factors phrases which indicate that they
are arranged in the cause and effect
organization can sometimes have the
following indicators spatial
organization shows ideas that convey
positions of parts places or objects in
space they are easily identified with
indicator transitions like the following
the analysis or classification
organization organizes ideas in terms of
parts functions or types of a thing
specific clues that indicate this
organizational strategy include phrases
like has several parts there are a
number of types of has several functions
and is made of a number of components
order of importance organizes ideas in
terms of how relevant or important they
are in supporting the main idea the more
important ideas can be placed first to
ensure that they can be read first
writers can also choose to put the more
important ideas at the end of the text
to build up the argument to a strong and
final statement here are some examples
of indicator transitions for order of a
peer of importance
comparison and contrast organization
shows similarities and differences
differences between two or more things
comparison and contrast can be organized
in two ways they can use the block
technique in which they talk about all
the characteristics of one item before
talking about all the characteristics of
the contrasting item they can also use
the point by point technique comparing
each items characteristic with their
counterparts before moving on to the
next characteristic indicator
transitions exist for both comparison
and contrast contrast transitions
contain a characteristic that is
different from the characteristics given
in the previous idea now let's examine
examples of each type of organizational
strategies shown in the general to
specific organization the first sentence
is the generalized topic sentence while
the succeeding sentences are specific
details indicator transitions such as
for example and also are present in this
specific to general organization the
first three sentences contain specific
details the generalized topic sentence
comes at the end summarizing what the
specific details have been saying in the
chronological sequential organization
sentences are arranged according to
which events happen first in this
example the transitions first then next
after and now are used to denote the
position of the ideas in time for
causing a
the first statement contains the
indicator phrase will have impacts which
signifies that the sentence is a cause
which will be followed by effects in the
next statements the paragraph starts
with the cause and proceeds to show the
effects of that particular cause in
spatial organization the phrases on the
desktop beside that in the top drawer
and in the bottom drawer specify the
relative positions of objects in
relation to the desk this example of the
analysis classification organization
shows that the part of a Greek monster
known as the Chimera the indicating
phrase is contains several parts
followed by a description of those parts
in this example of order of importance
organization the details are arranged
from the least to most important the
transitions in addition and most
importantly indicate this and the
overall effect is that the paragraph has
a strong and emphatic final point
finally this example of comparison and
contrast shows a point-by-point contrast
and first points out the characteristic
of women and then contrasts it with the
equivalent characteristic in men it uses
contrast transitions like on the other
hand and unlike let's practice
identifying multiple organizational
strategies in a sample paragraph can you
identify the organizational strategies
in this paragraph it begins with the
general statement then proceeds to
support it with specific details so it's
general to specific the supporting
sentences about ways in which global
warming can wreak havoc show that the
general statement is the cause and the
supporting sentences are effects
transitions such as also and last but
not least show that the supporting
sentence are organized by order of
importance
with the most important detail being
placed in the final sentence and let's
try another paragraph here not only does
the paragraph describe the parts in an
analysis classification organization it
also tracks their position in a spatial
organization our transition is always
reliable in identifying organizational
strategies transitions as well as
indicator phrases can often be used to
identify the organizational strategy
used by the text transitions are useful
in identifying text organization as long
as they are looked at together with
other clues that can be seen while
reading the entire paragraph detects
always employ these organizational
strategies texts are most often
organized not to be confusing to the
reader the organizational strategies
presented here are the most common
organizational strategies that we find
in many texts but other organizational
strategies still exist are their
organizational strategies their income
that are incompatible with each other
the organizational strategies that we've
just covered can be mixed and matched
freely however some organizations are
easier to combine than others in this
lesson we have established that writers
use different organizational strategies
to convey different ideas and what the
different types are for further reading
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