"As with the Kudrna family, war and other uncontrolled events often split family members between their native country and America," reads one passage from "Island of Hope, Island of Tears." This sentence uses a sequence text structure. A sequence text structure is one in which information about one thing leads directly to more information about another thing without any intervening material such as sentences or paragraphs. For example, if we were to read this sentence out loud, it would sound like this: "For the Kudrna family, war and other uncontrolled events often split family members between their native country and America." You can see that there is no break between the words "family" and "between", and this leads directly into more information about another thing - in this case, more words about the Kudrna family. Sequence text structures are useful because you don't have to stop what you're doing to find out more information - the reader will automatically start hearing more words about the topic once they reach the end of one segment. Because people tend to like finding out more information about topics they're interested in, this means sequence texts are very effective at getting readers to keep reading. In addition to being easy to follow, sequence texts also allow you to include important details in a short space of time.