Cause and Effect_R/W_August 28

4.9.D.iii Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including: organizational patterns such as compare and contrast.

Knowledge Objective:

SWBAT examine the genre of personal narratives from a variety of racial,

cultural, and geographic perspectives.

Cause and Effect

Demonstration of Learning:

I will recognize cause and effect organizational patterns in a given text.

Learning Objective:

SWBAT recognize the organizational patterns in a text.

CAUSE AND EFFECT (TPS)- Review from SOR

Cause

Effect

Why might an author use a cause and
effect structure in their writing?

Cause and Effect in Personal Narratives

Authors often use the cause and effect text

structure in their personal narratives to describe
how someone changed them or how they have

changed someone else.

My grandmother
made sure I
read a book
before bed
every night.

I love to read and
now I am an
author of a
children books.

INTRODUCE CAUSE AND EFFECT Text Structure

Introduce the Personal Narrative (an

We will be reading “Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A
Memoir of Family” by Condelezza Rice.

This story is about two parents eagerly awaiting a new
baby. While the parents characters start out one way, the
new babies, Condelezza Rice, arrival creates a change.

As we are reading, we will examine cause and effect text
structure.

anticipation (n.)

unique (adj.)

implications (n.)

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Introducing Vocabulary for “Cause and Effect”

* Words with multiple meanings

expectation, a feeling of looking
forward to something

one of a kind

suggestions

sermon (n.)

pulpit (n.)

feminist (n.)

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Introducing Vocabulary for “Cause and Effect”

* Words with multiple meanings

a serious speech on a moral
issue, often given in a place of
worship

a platform in church from which
the minister speaks

a person in favor of equal rights
for women

Build the Knowledge - OCR

Condoleezza Rice

Character Trait Discussion: True or False:
1. Condeleezza Rice values education.

CAUSE AND EFFECT IN THE TEXT: Activity 3.1

Cause

Effect

Dad was certain I’d be a

boy.

his mother was waiting

for him in the church

office. “Johnny, it’s a girl!”

From that day on he was

a “feminist”

Demonstration of Learning

I will recognize cause and effect

organizational patterns in a given text.

LSAE