Week of October 20-24

A little behind this week so bear with me guys!

This week we are discussing TEKS 4.11C.

This TEKS talks about the organization of non-fiction text or as we have said in class Non-fiction text structures.

In third grade we are focusing on three types of non-fiction text structures:
Cause and Effect
Sequence
Comparison.

Cause and Effect- The cause is what makes something happen and the effect is what happened or the result of that event.
In class we discussed one way of an author using this text structure to organize a non-fiction text about the water cycle.
The author could start by saying that the rain is Caused by condensation in the clouds, and because it rains it Causes puddles on the ground.  The heat from the sun Causes evaporation and the puddle to disappear.

Sequence- sequence is a simple way for author's to organize information.  They are simply putting things in order!  Author's of non-fiction text like to throw in recipes, directions for how to do something, and sometimes lists with sequence text organization.
Sequence has signal words to look out for like "first" "next" and "finally" to name a few.

Comparison- Comparison we have already talked about a lot as we studied the fiction TEKS the first six weeks of school.  It's simply telling how to things are alike and how they are different.
One way we discussed author's could use comparison to organize text was the following example...

If an author is comparing a squid to an octopus they can write one paragraph comparing the two creatures and a second paragraph stating their differences.  This would make the text easy to follow.


I hope this helps you understand what we are learning this week!

Thanks for all you do!