Text Structures

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What is the organizational structure of the passage about ice-cream flavors? Options: Cause and Effect, Chronological, Problem solution, Compare/Contrast

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Compare/Contrast

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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. Options: Compare/Contrast, Chronological, Problem/Solution, Sequence/Order of Importance

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Problem/Solution

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What organizational pattern is used in the passage about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook? Options: Chronological, Sequence/Order of Importance, Cause/Effect, Problem/Solution

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Chronological

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What text structure explains why something happened or explains the effects of something?

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Cause or Effect

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What text structure talks about order in time? Options: Chronological, Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, Problem or Solution

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Chronological

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When you are finding similarities and differences within a text, what text structure is this format?

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Compare and Contrast

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Choose the clue words that indicate cause and effect: next, after, then, first, last, struggle, promise, problem, solution, consequently, as a result of, so, therefore, similar, common, compare, contrast.

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consequently, as a result of, so, therefore

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Clue words that indicate compare and contrast: therefore, cause, effect, consequently, later, then, next, Monday, similar, different, common, on the other hand, possibility, struggle, hope, problem.

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similar, different, common, on the other hand

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Clue words indicating problem and solution: first, last, next, after, cause, as a result of, consequently, compare, similar, both, alike, threat, difficulty, possibility, hope

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threat, difficulty, possibility, hope

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Clue words indicating chronological order: first, next, finally, 8:30, after, cause, effect, as a result of, because, problem, solution, promise, struggle, compare, contrast, similar, different

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first, next, finally, 8:30, after