Compare How Information Is Presented

“Volcano!” “Fleeing Katrina,” and “Earthquake” tell about violent forces of nature. Each selection tells about this topic in a different way.

How It Works

Collect and Organize Notes To compare across texts, organize notes in a chart. Consider how the kind of writing affects how information is presented.

Practice Together

Study and Analyze Look at the notes in the second column of the Comparison Chart. Write an explanatory paragraph like this one to compare the different kinds of writing.

Try It!

Copy and complete the chart above. Then write a paragraph to compare different ways in which writers give information. You may want to use this frame to help you express your comparison.

Each writer tells about a force of nature in a different way. “Volcano!” uses ______ to tell about volcanoes. “Fleeing Katrina,” tells about Hurricane Katrina through ______. In “Earthquake,” the writer tells about a historic earthquake through ______.