Text Structure

Text Structure

People who live in cold climates know that there are several different winter sport choices. If you enjoy flying down hills at breakneck speeds, you’ll need to choose between snowboarding and skiing. Both are winter sports where you move along snow with boards attached to your feet. While skiing, you’ll have a ski attached to each foot, and a pole for each hand. Snowboarding, on the other hand, uses only one board, which both feet are attached to. Skis and snowboards both require boots to buckle into. While you need a sloped hill to snowboard down, with skis, you can cross country ski on snowy flat land. Your body’s position will also be different depending on the sport you choose— snowboarders ride down hills sideways, and skiers move straight ahead. Either sport is a thrilling winter activity!

Open Ended

What 2 things were compared in the story we just read?

Most ski and snowboard resorts open in mid-November. Sometimes, though, there is no snow forskiers and snowboarders to ride. When that happens,the resorts fire up their snow machines, called snow guns or cannons. If temperatures are cold enough, air and water can be combined to create artificial snow, and the “no snow problem” will disappear under a pile of fresh, white, powder. Some ski resorts use the snow machines nightly until mother nature creates enough of her own snow!

Open Ended

What was the problem and Solution?

Multiple Choice

Toad (Frog) Population

Dr. Knapp doesn’t want people to sit back and let the toad vanish. He believes that everyone is responsible for restoring the toad species. One of Dr. Knapp's solution is that we stop mowing parts of our lawns and let the grass grow wild to reserve space for the toad. He also believes we need to stop using pesticides and fertilizers. The chemicals kill the insects that toads eat. If we preserve some spaces in our lawns and stop using fertilizers, Dr. Knapp believes we can save the toads.

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• Chronological

• Problem and Solution

Multiple Choice

Apples and oranges are both fruits, which means that they have seeds inside of them. Each has a skin, but orange skins are thick and easy to peel. Apple skins are thinner and do not peel easily. Oranges also contain more acid than apples, but both fruits are delicious.

• Problem and solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Sequence

• Cause and Effect

Multiple Choice

On both Halloween and Easter you get candy, but the candy looks very different. Easter candy is usually wrapped in bright colors. On the other hand, Halloween candy is often black and orange or it could have monsters on the wrappers.

• descriptive

• compare & contrast

• problem & solution

• chronological order

Multiple Choice

How is this text structured?

Lightning and thunder are related events. Lightning is a sudden, violent flash of electricity that occurs between a cloud and the ground or between two clouds in the sky. A lightning bolt can be several miles long and can be straight or forked. It is very hot, with an average temperature of 34,000 degrees Celsius. This causes the air around the electric bolt to expand, producing lots of sound energy. It is this sound energy that we hear as thunder. So, lightning and thunder are caused by the same event, but lightning is light energy, or electromagnetic energy, whereas thunder is sound energy. thus, we see lightning and hear thunder.

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

• sequence/ process writing

• problem solution

Multiple Choice

Which text feature matches the graphic organizer?

• Problem and solution

• Cause and effect

• Description

• Compare and contrast

• Chronological order

Multiple Choice

In which text structure would you find the signal words, "similarly" and "however"?

• Description

• Chronological order

• Cause and effect

• Compare and contrast