Argus High School

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Argus High School
English Lesson 18 Structural Features
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Reading Comprehension

• Informational Materials

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• Reading Comprehension
• Structural Features of Informational Materials
• Using Internal Organizers of a Book

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• You can find a specific piece of
• information in a nonfiction book
• by using the books internal
• organizers.

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• Every non-fiction
• book has internal
• organizers. Each
• kind of internal
• organizer is
• arranged to help
• the reader find a
• different kind of
• information.

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• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• A table of contents is a listing of
• a books contents in the order in
• which they appear. It appears at
• the beginning of a book.

Contents
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• The table of contents is a good
• way to find out what a book is
• about and how its information is
• presented.

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• Look at this sample table of
• contents and make some
• inferences about what the book is
• about.

Contents Battle-Hymn of the Republic
5 From The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
6 John Burns of Gettysburg
12 The Blue and the Gray
16 When Johnny Comes Marching Home
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• Contents
• Battle-Hymn of the Republic 5
• From The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant 6
• John Burns of Gettysburg 12
• The Blue and the Gray
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• When Johnny Comes Marching Home 18
• Based on the table of contents,
• this book could be about
• Songs of war
• Army uniforms
• The civil war
• Famous generals

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• Songs of war
• Although there are two songs included in this
  book, it excludes the topics of the rest of the
  book.

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• Army uniforms
• This choice is too narrow and covers only one
  section of the book.

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• C. The civil war
• This topic is general enough to incorporate all
  of the other topics in the book and therefore
  would
• be a good
• inference about
• what the book
• is about.

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• Famous generals
• This topic is too narrow and covers only one
  section of the book.

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• INDEX
• An index is an alphabetical list of
• important words and topics and
• the page numbers on which they
• can be found.

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• The index is usually the last
• feature of a book.

Index A...1 B...2 C...3 D...4
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• Look at this sample index to
• find specific information.
• Index
• Argumentation
• audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540-41
• conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
• evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
• organization . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
• refutations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 541-542

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• Index
• Argumentation
• audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  540-41
• conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  543
• evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  541
• organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  544
• refutations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  542
• According to this index, where would you find
• information about supporting your argument?
• organization p 544 C. evidence p 541
• audience p 540-41 D. refutations p 542

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• Organization
• Although it might mention that you should
  support your argument in the organization of the
  whole argument this is too broad to get specific
  help on supporting your argument.

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• Audience
• A writer must keep his/her audience in mind when
  choosing support for an argument, but the reader
  would not find information on supporting an
  argument in this section.

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• Evidence
• It is the evidence that the writer offers the
  reader that is support for the argument.

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• Refutations
• This topic refers to the opposition to the
  argument. Although the writer must be aware of
  the opposing arguments he/she would not find
  specific information about supporting an argument
  in this section.

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• APPENDIX
• An appendix supplies additional
• information in the form of charts,
• tables, or graphs. Sometimes a book
• has several appendices, each presenting
• a different kind of information.

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• An appendix is found at the end of a
• book often preceding the index.

Appendix
Index
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• Which of the following would not be
• found in an appendix?
• A collection of pictures illustrating the
  information in the book.
• Charts and graphs that show data pertaining to
  the information in the book.
• A listing of chapters in the book.
• Primary source documents referred to in the book.

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• A collection of pictures, charts and
• graphs and primary source documents
• referred to in the book would all be
• found in an appendix. They might each
• be found in a different appendix
• because each is a different kind of
• information.

Appendix A Pictures Appendix B Charts and
Graphs Appendix C Primary Source Documents
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• A listing of chapters in a book.
• This information is found in the Table of
  Contents and not in an appendix.

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• GLOSSARY
• A glossary contains an alphabetical list
• of words and phrases and their
• definitions.

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• A glossary is useful when the author
• uses words and phrases that might be
• unfamiliar to the reader.

loquacious
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• The word loquacious would come before which word
  in a glossary?
• lingerie
• loathsome
• loquat
• lopsided

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• Alphabetically loquacious comes between
• lopsided and loquat
• lingerie
• loathsome
• lopsided
• loquacious
• loquat
• C. loquat

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