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Learn how to effectively organize new information in nonfiction texts using charts and graphs. Explore venn diagrams and falling domino charts as tools to compare ideas and understand cause and effect. Improve your reading skills through prediction and review.
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Organizing new information in nonfiction texts is very important for research and understanding the texts, especially if it is unfamiliar. In research, to organize it will help you understand the main idea and important details in the text. Organize New Information for Your Own Understanding
Charts and Graphs • Charts and graphs are one way to organize texts. The venn diagram is an example of a chart. It can be used to compare two different ideas from different texts. • One example of a chart is the falling domino chart.
Falling domino charts are cause and effect charts. If you are talking about what happened during the moment when Mt.Vesuvius erupted, you talk about every event in order from first to last. That is where this comes in. Falling Domino Chart
Before you read you should predict what will happen. In the middle stop and review what happened so far. Then, when you are finished you should stop and think over what you just read. If you don't you will most likely be confused. Prediction
If you follow these reading steps you will become a better reader.