Name Core Exploring Text Features Organizational Patterns Authors

Name: __________ Core: ____ Exploring Text Features & Organizational Patterns Authors use text features to bring attention to important details. The organizational patter or text structure is used to organize information. Author’s use different organizational patterns to achieve different purposes, and one piece of writing often has multiple patterns. Before Reading 1. Read the headline and look at the image on pages 4 -5. What mood or feeling is created? ___________________________________________________________________________ 2. After reading the heading and subheadings, write a sentence summarizing what you think the article will be about. ___________________________________________________________________________ After Reading 3. The spacecraft discussed in the article is pictured with labels on pages 4 -5. What text feature is being used here? Why did the author include it? ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. Study the image and caption titled “The Agonizing Wait” on pages 8 -9. What can you infer about how the people in the photo were feeling? ___________________________________________________________________________ 5. Read the last paragraph in the middle column on page 10. Explain why the author used italics in this paragraph ___________________________________________________________________________

6. In the last paragraph of the middle column on page 6 begins with the sentence The 240, 00 mile journey would take three days. In this paragraph the author uses generalization/ description. What is the author describing in the paragraph? ___________________________________________________________________________ 7. A. In the last paragraph in the middle column on page 8 begins with the sentence At first, nobody knew what had happened. What organizational pattern is used in this paragraph? ______________________________________ B. Copy down a sentence from this paragraph that uses a signal word or phrase of the organizational pattern you indicated above. ___________________________________________________________________________ 8. The section “Scanning the Sky” presents solutions to the problems the Apollo 13 astronauts encountered during their mission. Write a problem-solution pair below. Problem: ___________________________________ Solution: ___________________________________ 9. A. In the last section, “Free Fall to Earth, ” the author describes the events of the morning of April 17, 1970. Which organizational pattern does she use? ______________________________________ B. Copy down a sentence from this section that uses a signal word or phrase of the organizational pattern you indicated above. ___________________________________________________________________________