RI.4.5 Informational Text Structures

RI.4.5 Informational Text Structures

Multiple Choice

Choose the clue words that indicate the Chronology text structure:

• first, next, finally, 8:30, after

• cause, effect, as a result of, because

• compare, contrast, similar, different

Multiple Choice

Which text structure would I use to tell about the history of women's rights? 

• Compare-Contrast
• Sequence
• Chronological
• Cause-Effect

Multiple Choice

When we compare and contrast while reading we are looking for:

• similarities and differences

• wrongs and rights

• truth and lies

• clues and facts

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to contrast?

• To tell what is alike and what is the same.
• To tell what is different.
• To tell what is the same.
• To tell what is alike and what is different.

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to compare?

• To tell what is alike and what is different.

• To tell what is the same.

• To tell what is different.

• To tell what is not alike.

Multiple Choice

Kate lived in a large house with many animals. Her best friend, Jill, lived in a small house without pets. How were the friends' homes different?

• Kate had a large house, but Jill's was small.

• Kate doesn't have pets, but Jill does.

• Both Kate and Jill have homes.

Multiple Choice

Bill and Jack both like to eat pizza. Bill likes pepperoni pizza, but Jack only likes cheese pizza.
How are Bill and Jack alike?

• They hate pizza.
• Bill likes sausage pizza.
• They both like pizza.
• Jack likes pepperoni pizza

Multiple Choice

Which clue word signals an effect?

• Because

• As a result

• Since

• Due to

Multiple Choice

Tony made himself a bowl of cereal and milk. He took his first bite, made an awful face, and hurried to the sink to spit it out! Then he took the carton of milk out of the fridge, opened the top and took a sniff. The milk had turned sour!

What was the effect of Tony spitting out his cereal and milk?

• He went to the fridge to check the milk carton.

• The milk tasted awful.

• Tony made himself a bowl of cereal and milk.

• The milk turned sour!

Multiple Choice

Which clue word signals a cause?

• So

• Since

• As a result

• Therefore

Multiple Choice

Mom put her cell phone on the stack of towels by the pool. Later, Carl got out of the pool and reached for a towel. He did not see the cell phone and it went flying into the water when he grabbed the towel on top of the stack. He jumped in after it, but the cell phone was ruined.

What caused mom's phone to fall into the pool?

• Carl grabbed the towel that the cell phone was on.

• The phone got ruined by the water.

• Mom put her cell phone on the stack of towels.

• Carl jumped in the pool to get the phone.

Multiple Choice

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 solution?

• people cutting down the rain forest

• ignore it

• people are trying to save the rain forests

• Sequence/Order of Importance

Multiple Choice

Stacey had a lot of fun riding her bike one sunny afternoon. She was just about to go home when she hit a patch of loose gravel. Stacey skidded and then tipped over on her bike, scraping her knee. After cleaning the scrape, Stacey put a bandage on her knee.

What is the problem?

• She hit a patch of loose gravel.

• She had a lot of fun.

• She scraped her knee.

Multiple Choice

How would you know if a text was written in problem-solution text structure?

• The text would explain the steps of an event in time order

• The text would explain one main issue, and the solution to this issue

• The text would show how two things are similar and different

• The text would define and describe one main topic

Multiple Choice

Which type of text structure describes events in sequential order?

• Chronological

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & Solution

• Compare/Contrast

Multiple Select

Comparison and contrast structure will tell you:

(Choose two)

• how things are the same

• why something happened

• an important date

• how things are different

Multiple Select

Cause and effect text structure will:

(Choose two)

• explain reasons why something happened

• explain the effects of something

• solve a problem

Multiple Choice

When a family of beavers wants to construct a dam across a river, they begin by using their teeth to cut down trees. Then they drag the trees to the river where they construct the dam from the bottom up. They continue to add more trees, branches, and mud until the top of the dam is above the water.

The text structure in this passage is:

• Compre & Contrast

• Description

• Cause & Effect

• Chronological

Multiple Choice

Electricity can flow through some kinds of materials, but not through others. Materials that electricity can flow through are called conductors. Metal and water are both conductors. By contrast, materials that electricity cannot flow through are called insulators. Plastics, glass, fabric, and wood are all insulators.

The text structure in this passage is:

• Compare & Contrast

• Description

• Cause & Effect

• Sequence

Multiple Choice

Did you know that not all deserts are hot? Both hot and cold deserts are very dry, but unlike hot deserts, cold deserts have winters when the temperatures can reach below freezing. Cold deserts also get a great deal of snow, which is certainly not true for hot deserts.

The text structure in this passage is:

• Compre & Contrast

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & Solution

• Description

Multiple Choice

While oranges and lemons are both citrus fruits that grow on trees, they are different colors and have very different tastes.

The text structure in this passage is:

• problem & solution

• compare & contrast

• order & sequence

Multiple Choice

Students who are frequently absent often have lower average grades than those who have good attendance. When they are out of the classroom, students do not get to see a teacher’s lessons. Even if they attend extra help, it’s usually much shorter and less detailed than the actual lesson. In addition, frequently absent students often miss tests or other assignments and don’t always make up the work.

The text structure in this passage is:

• problem & solution

• order & sequence

• compare & contrast

• cause & effect

Multiple Choice

Choose the 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