Text Structures

This text structure is "how are things in the text similar or different."

• Main Idea and Details
• Problem and Solution
• Cause and Effect
• Comparison

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

This nonfiction structure is used when an author or writer conducts an interview.

• Description
• Question and Answer
• Chronological
• Cause and Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

The text structure that discusses what is specifically being described is ______________.

• Comparison
• Description/MI & D
• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

The text structure that is written in a style that tells what happened and why it happens is...

• Problem and Solution
• Question and Answer
• Chronological
• Cause and Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

This text structure tells what is the conflict, or problem, and how it was resolved.

• Main Ideas and Details
• Problem and Solution
• Chronological
• Cause and Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

CCSS.RI.1.5

The text structure that shows events taking place over time or gives steps is... 

• Chronological
• Description/MI & D
• Cause and Effect
• Question and Answer

Tags

CCSS.RI.K.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

"Similar, same, alike, both, on the other hand, instead" are signal words for...

• Comparison
• Description
• Question and Answer
• Cause and Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.K.5

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

"Who, what, when, where, why, and how" are used with .....

• Chronological
• Description/MI & D
• Question and Answer
• Comparison

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.SL.4.1C

"Such as, for instance, in addition, for example" are signal words for ...

• Problem and Solution
• Comparison
• Description/MI & D
• Question and Answer

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

"First, second, following, and finally" are used with ...

• Description
• Problem and Solution
• Cause and Effect
• Chronological

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

CCSS.RI.1.5