Welcome to Unit 4: Patterns of Organization. Now that we've talked about the difference between an author's main idea and the details the author uses to support it, along with how we can make inferences based on those details, let's talk about how authors organize their writing. We'll start this unit by learning how to differentiate between facts and opinion. Then we'll talk about how writing can be used to show cause and effect, to compare and contrast, and to describe information.
