Text Structure

Multiple Choice

This type of text structure features a detailed description of something to give the reader a mental picture.

Example: A book may tell all about whales or describe what the geography is like in a particular region.

• Description

• Cause and Effect

• Comparison and Contrast

• Order/Sequence

• Problem-Solution

Multiple Choice

This structure presents the causal relationship between a specific event, idea, or concept and the events, ideas, or concept that follow.

Example: Weather patterns could be described that explain why a big snowstorm occurred.

• Description

• Cause and Effect

• Comparison and Contrast

• Order/Sequence

• Problem-Solution

Multiple Choice

This type of text examines the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, ideas, etc.

Example: A book about ancient Greece may explain how the Spartan women were different from the Athenian women.

• Description

• Cause and Effect

• Comparison and Contrast

• Order/Sequence

• Problem-Solution

Multiple Choice

This type of structure sets up a problem or problems, explains the solution, and then discusses the effects of the solution.

• Description

• Cause and Effect

• Comparison and Contrast

• Order/Sequence

• Problem-Solution

Multiple Choice

Which text structure does the author use in the passage?

• descriptive

• problem solution

• cause and effect

• sequencing

Open Ended

Based on your answer about the text structure, give an example of the relationship found in the passage? (Why did you choose descriptive, problem solution, cause and effect, or sequencing?)

Poll

How well did you do?

Multiple Choice

The reader can conclude that -

• something happened to Colonel 
Openshaw

• the letters explain what happened

• the speaker is interested in traveling to America

• Colonel Openshaw loved the English life-style