Text Connections

Learning Target

Text Structures

Describe how the ideas in sentences and paragraphs are connected.

Text Structures

How a building is made, depends on its purpose. For example, homes and schools are arranged in different ways for how people will use them.

To tell about a topic, author's must decide the best way to build ideas together. Like builders, authors arrange words in different ways for different purposes. We call these text structures.

Text Structures

As a reader, we have to look at how sentences and paragraphs are connected. These connections are the text structures. If we are able to describe these connections then we will better understand the text.

Let's Try Figuring Out Some

Text Structures

Multiple Choice

Which text structure is used to tell about this topic?

Multiple Choice

Which text structure is used to tell about this topic?

Multiple Choice

Which text structure is used to tell about this topic?

Clue Words or Not

Authors don't always use clue words. Can you figure out the connections without clue words?

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Multiple Choice

Which text structure is used to to connect these sentences?

The monarch is ready to fly south.  It cannot withstand the cold winter up north. 

Clue Words or Not

The monarch is ready to fly south. It cannot withstand the cold winter up north. 

Multiple Choice

Which text structure is used to to connect these sentences?

The monarch moves inside the shell and cracks it open.  It climbs out, rests, and lets its wins dry.  

Clue Words or Not

Authors don't always use clue words. Can you figure out the connections without clue words?

Let's Try!

Multiple Choice

Which text structure is used to to connect these sentences?

Milkweed is important.  It is what the caterpillar will spend its days eating.

Clue Words or Not

Milkweed is important. It is what the caterpillar will spend its days eating.

Multiple Choice

Which text structure is used to to connect these sentences?

Monarch butterflies are popular amongst bug enthusiast for their beautiful bright colors.  Usually the moth is thought of as dark and dull. Most people don't even take notice when they fly by.

Clue Words or Not

Monarch butterflies are popular amongst bug enthusiast for their beautiful bright colors. Usually the moth is thought of as dark and dull. Most people don't even take notice when they fly by.

Multiple Choice

Which text structure is used to to connect these sentences?

As the caterpillar eats, it grows! But its skin stays the same size.  It pushes, tugs, and wiggles its way out of the too small skin. It attaches itself to a stem or a leaf and hangs upside down.

Clue Words or Not

As the caterpillar eats, it grows! But its skin stays the same size. It pushes, tugs, and wiggles its way out of the too small skin. It attaches itself to a stem or a leaf and hangs upside down.

Text Structure - What I Need to Know!

• Text structures describes the connections the between sentences and paragraphs

• These connections are sequence, compare & contrast, cause & effect, problem & solution, and descriptions.

• Each connection has clue words that help to us know which text structure is being used by the author.

• Remember, clue words are only clues! To know for sure, ALWAYS look for how the connection is shown between sentences and paragraphs.