Complex Thinking about Structure

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Complex Thinking about Structure

Teaching point Da I want to teach you that as texts get more complex, readers must study and consider the structure of those texts, noticing the overall structure and how chunks of texts are built.

Teaching POINT~! Today, I want to teach you that as texts get more complex, readers must study and consider the structure of those texts, noticing the overall structure and how chunks of texts are built.

Ways Complex Nonfiction Gets Hard The headings and subheadings don’t help or are misleading. There are several main ideas The central ideas and main ideas are implicit (hidden). The vocabulary is hard and technical There are many complex/hybrid structures

Be alert to changing structures

Ways Complex Nonfiction Gets Hard The headings and subheadings don’t help or are misleading. There are several main ideas The central ideas and main ideas are implicit (hidden). The vocabulary is hard and technical There are many complex/hybrid structures Subtopics may each be broken into multiple parts Parts can shit in structure