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Reading Skills Series. Transitions and Organizational Patterns. Transitions and Organizational Patterns Learning Objective. To identify common patterns of organization and recognize their corresponding transition words. Transitions and Organizational Patterns .
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Reading Skills Series Transitions and Organizational Patterns
Transitions andOrganizational Patterns Learning Objective To identify common patterns of organization and recognize their corresponding transition words.
Transitions andOrganizational Patterns Patterns of organization help you follow written ideas more easily and, therefore, improve your understanding of the text.
Transitions andOrganizational Patterns Common Patterns of Organization • Time Order • Listing • Spatial (or Space) Order • Classification • Comparison • Contrast • Comparison and Contrast • Cause and Effect • Definition and Example • Generalization and Example
Transitions andOrganizational Patterns Time Order is when ideas or events are presented in the order they occur. Some common transition words and phrases include first, second, later, next, as soon as, after, finally, meanwhile, last, during, when, by the time, until, and step. Example: