Patterns Patterns help you anticipate the author’s thought development and thus focus your reading. Patterns help you remember and recall what you read. Patterns are useful in your writing; they help you organize and express your ideas in a more coherent, comprehensible form.

Matching 1. Definition 2. Classification 3. Time Order 4. Process A. Shows events in the order they occurred. B. A series of steps in the order to do them. C. Explains the meaning of a term. D. Groups things according to characteristics.

Group Practice Underline the pattern’s transitions as you read the paragraph. Definition: p. 92 Practice B Classification: p. 95 Practice B Time Order: p.97-98 Practice B Process: p. 100 Practice B

Order of Importance Transitions Primarily, primary Secondarily secondary First, next, last Least Most More Less

Matching 1. Spatial 2. Order of Importance 3. cause & effect 4. Compare & Contrast 5. Listing/ addition A. Shows how one thing caused another(& v.v.) B. The details are in no special order C. Shows locations D. Shows similarities and differences E. Shows the most significant to least (& V.V.)

Group Practice Cause & Effect p. 105 Practice B Compare & Contrast 108 Practice A Listing p. 111 Practice B Circle the topic Underline the main idea Bracket transitions for the pattern that you are practicing

U-Review Why do we look at relationships within and between sentences? How do you determine the relationship within a sentence? How do you determine the relationship between sentences?

Group Practice Other Patterns Practice 3 p. 88 – 89.