Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.

In fourth and fifth grades, students were asked to point out the form of organization a text uses; in seventh grade, students are asked to further that knowledge by analyzing the structure itself. If something is written in a cause/effect manner, what does the "cause" part do, and what does the "effect" part do? If something is written sequentially, why is the previous step needed in order to have the current step make sense? Make sure students can answer these types of questions.