Use an organizational structure appropriate for the topic and purpose (e.g., sequential, chronological, problem-solution, comparison-contrast, cause-effect). 0601.2.12

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1. Author's Purpose: Save the Wilbur - read a story online and answer questions on paper - a detailed explanation follows passage, teaching how to find the answers in passages
2. Author's Purpose: A Winning Breakfast - read a story online and answer questions on paper - a detailed explanation follows passage, teaching how to find the answers in passages
3. Cause and Effect Activities and Quizzes - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
4. Cause and Effect Diagrams - Lesson showing how to think through causes of a problem
5. Cause and Effect Lesson - explore some cause and effect situations using graphic organizers [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
6. Cause-and-Effect Writing Challenges Students - The cause-and-effect relationship is both a way of thinking and a format for writing. Teachers who emphasize cause-and-effect writing say that they are helping students learn to think critically as well as write cogently. Read what three experienced teachers have to say about this teaching approach, which can be used with students of all ages. This is an article from Education World magazine .
7. Compare and Contrast Activities - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
8. Compare and Contrast Lesson Plans - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
9. Making The Relationship Explicit Between Your Ideas - from UniLearning - Academic Writing
10. Organizational Patterns - information and examples of each type
11. Organized Speech Writing: Speech Structure - 7 part video lesson
12. Preparing Expository-Informative Oratory-Persuasive After Dinner Speeches-Speeches to Entertain -
13. Types of Organizational Patterns - explanations of the types of patterns of a speech

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