Spatial organization

• Spatial organization paragraph is used to

describe location of places, objects, and people
in space. It is used to describe movement
through spaces. For example , Spatial
organization is used by architects to describe
buildings; engineers to describe the parts of
the engine; historians to describe the routes
explorers followed.
• A paragraph of Spatial organization usually
leads to readers to form a pictures as they read
 Signal words
Preposition Nouns and adjectives
above h inside back interior
across near base north
against on bottom parallel
along on either side center perimeter
around on top corner section
beneath outside diameter side
beside over east south
in surrounded by edge symmetrical
in front under exterior top
in the center facing vertical
front west
horizontal
 example
• The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC., is a
monument to Abraham Lincoln. Wide stairs lead
to the entrance. The interior of the monument is
divided into three sections. The rooms on the left
and the right are separated from the center section
by a row of columns. Two of Lincoln’s famous
speeches are engraved on the walls of these
rooms. The center sections is open to the front of
the monuments. Here there is a large statue of
Lincoln, seated in a chair facing the entrance.
 Task:

• Describe a building you are familiar with; it

can be a famous mosque, church, museum,
other building, or even your house. Make sure
or imagine that the reader understand and
able draw what you write.