Understanding Nonfiction Text Structures

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What term is also used to refer to text structure?

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Organizational pattern

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Which text structure includes using details to help picture a subject? Options: Problem and Solution, Cause-and-Effect, Description List, Sequence of Events

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Description List

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What signals a Cause-and-Effect structure? Options: First, then, finally, Similar, different, unlike, Problem, reason, solution, Because, therefore, as a result

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Because, therefore, as a result

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How is a Problem and Solution structure identified?

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By presenting a problem followed by its solution

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What structure describes events in the order they happened?

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Sequence of Events

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What term is used for how an author organizes information in a text?

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Text structure

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Which of the following is NOT a type of nonfiction text structure? Options: Problem and solution, Argument and debate, Cause-and-effect, Description list

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Argument and debate

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What text structure uses signal words like 'because' and 'as a result'?

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Cause-and-effect

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Which text structure would likely use a Venn diagram to organize information?

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Compare and contrast

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What is the main purpose of the description list text structure?

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To describe using details