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TODAY’S Feature Presentation: Reading Workshop Session #2—Text Structure . TEXT STRUCTURE. Identifying how a book is constructed helps tremendously with the process of understanding its contents. Consider the 3 parts of any book. BEGINNING or what is in FRONT of the BOOK’s CONTENTS
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TODAY’S Feature • Presentation: • Reading Workshop • Session #2—Text Structure
TEXT STRUCTURE Identifying how a book is constructed helps tremendously with the process of understanding its contents.
Consider the 3 parts of any book. • BEGINNING or what is in FRONT of the BOOK’s CONTENTS • MIDDLE or the BOOK’s CONTENTS • END or what follows the BOOK’s CONTENTS
The Front of a Book • Table of contents? Chapter listings? • Dedication? • Epigraph? (Inscription?) • List of previous works? • Library of Congress page? • Introduction, prologue, or foreward? • Quotes from reviews? • Author biography? • List of illustrations? • Other information?
The Book Itself • Chapter titles? Section titles? • Chapter organization? Breaks within chapters? • Chapter epigraphs? • Length of chapters? Length of sections? • Format, i.e. diary, verse, use of italics? • Narrator? Narrator changes? • Placement of illustrations, graphs, maps?
The End of a Book • Index? • Bibliography? • Author’sacknowledgements? • Appendix? • Authorbiography? • Afterword, post-script, or epilogue? • Author’s notes? • Study guide? Book club questions? • Chapter of next book in series? • Description of type?