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Time Constant but Settings Change - This type of text is a reverse of the "time flies text."  Using this text structure, writers will hold a moment or a period of time still, often using a repeating line to do so, and will move about in various locations to see what is happening at that specific time in different places.  This structure can be used to show contrasts in place or to show many different things happening at the same moment (Wondrous Words by Katie wood Ray).

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Meanwhile Back at the Ranch by Trinka Hakes Noble

On the Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier

Somewhere in the World Right Now by Stacy Shuett

Strega Nona Takes a Vacation by Tomie DePaola

Your First Step by Henry Sorensen