Explaining Relationships in Texts
Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in historical, scientific, or technical texts based on specific information
What a learner can do afterwards
- Explain the cause-and-effect relationship between events in a historical text
- Describe how a scientific process involves sequential steps that depend on each other
- Identify how key individuals in a text influenced events or other people
The lesson
You already know how to connect ideas in a text. Now you will explain the relationship between them. That means telling how one event, step, or person affected another, using details straight from the text.
A text explains that Gutenberg invented a faster printing press. Because books could be made cheaper, more people learned to read. That let new ideas spread quickly across Europe. One person's invention set off a chain of effects.
Watch for words like because, so, as a result, and led to. They point right at the relationship between two things in the text.
Find what happened first, then explain what it caused next: that is the relationship the text is showing you.
Watch it
Where it sits
Learn first
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Where this leads
8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.