Informational Text Structure Flashcard

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What genre is informational text?

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Non-Fiction

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What type of text structure shows how two or more things are alike and different?

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Compare/Contrast

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What type of text structure describes an issue and at least one way to solve it? Options: Chronological, Compare/Contrast, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution

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Problem and Solution

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Classify the passage: "It is fun to read about chimpanzees. All wild chimpanzees live in Africa. They live mostly in thick rain forests and in woodlands. There are two types." Options: Cause & Effect, Descriptive, Sequence, Problem & Solution

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Descriptive

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Text structure

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Text structure is the way a text is organized.

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Which "text structure" would be used if an author is wanting to describe a significant event and the consequences of that event? Options:

cause and effect

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problem and solution

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chronological order

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descriptive

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cause and effect

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Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem. What is the problem?

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chimpanzees are disappearing

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Key words to determine the text structure: chronological?

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Next, then, last

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As a result of losing its leg, a starfish grows a new one: this is an example of what text structure? Options: Cause/Effect, Problem & Solution, Description, Compare/Contrast

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Cause/Effect