How can we correct a passage that fails to use parallelism/parallel structure correctly?
5. For additional practice, provide students with a nonfiction passage. After students have read that, have them identify the organizational pattern used in the passage and explain whether that is effective and why or why not. (The teacher may choose to write this passage so that its organizational pattern is obvious but it lacks cohesive devices, or the teacher may simply re-type an existing nonfiction passage but eliminating at least some of the cohesive devices.) Students are then to revise the passage, adding a prescribed number of appropriate transitions (the number required to be determined by the teacher depending upon the passage used), at least one use of repetition and at least one use of parallelism. Have some students read their revised passages aloud to classmates to illustrate the variety of ways the various cohesive devices can be used.
