Focus on Genre: Biography
A biography is the story of a person’s life, written by another person. In biographies, writers often use a cause-and-effect text structure to show why events happened in a person’s life.
What clue word signals the cause-and-effect relationship in the passage?
Your Job as a Reader: Reading Strategy: Determine Importance
As you read, stop after each paragraph and record what is most important. After reading, use your Summary Planner to tell what the selection mostly is telling you about the topic.
