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To have students analyze the structure of texts, do the following:

 Direct students to determine the author’s purpose, audience, and occasion for this text; then ask them to identify how these factors influence the choices the author makes about the structure of the text.

 Ask them to examine the macrostructure of the text—its layout, format, design on the page or screen, and its features and elements—as part of their analysis of how the text functions to create meaning or achieve the author’s intended result(s).

 Have students identify the organizational pattern or rhetorical mode of this text—compare–contrast, problem–solution, cause–effect, chronological, and so on—and then examine what additional choices the author makes—about tone, style, the use of images, narrative, examples, and embedding of other media—join with the organizational pattern to create a sense of surprise, tension, or mystery when reading the text.

 Model for students how you determine the structure of a complex text and use that knowledge to better understand and analyze the text through close reading.

 Have students locate all structural elements—transitions, subheadings, parallel plots, shifts in time—and analyze how they affect the reader’s response and text’s meaning.

To have students analyze how specific sentences and larger portions relate, do the following:

 Ask students to annotate a text specifically to identify those sentences that create structure or cause significant moments within the text at the paragraph level. These might be sentences that shift the focus of the text to new topics or to other perspectives on the same subject; they might be sentences that create a point of emphasis on a certain idea, event, or other aspect of the text.

To have students analyze the author’s choices about structure and order within, do the following:

 Work with students to determine the organizational pattern of the text (e.g., sequential or chronological) and its rhetorical mode (to define, compare, or explain); then, first together, and then, on their own, have students assess how each sentence and the different elements within the text create order and meaning while also helping the author achieve his or her purpose.