Transition Strategies: Move from Whole to Pieces
Description
The author begins by listing several items that all belong to one large category. Next, she states what these items have in common. The author then elaborates on each item in the list, paragraph by paragraph.
Published Example
From B.M. Miller, “Native American Architecture,” in the August 1988 issue of Cobblestone magazine:
Wigwams, pueblos, igloos, tepees -- all are forms of Native American architecture. American Indians built a variety of dwellings that fit the way each tribe lived. Their houses were made of the materials that were most readily found.
In northern forests, Algonquin families lived in domed structures called wigwams. The Algonquins needed a house that was easy to construct because they moved seasonally to farm, hunt, and fish. The wigwam had a frame of....
Discussion
In the first paragraph the author lists several types of Native American dwellings. In the second paragraph, the author focuses on one type from that list: wigwams, the dwellings built by the Algonquins. In the next paragraph, the author focuses on longhouses, the dwellings of the Iroquois. In each paragraph, the author identifies the type of architecture, the tribe that constructed it, and why each tribe built the type of house it did.