Text Structure Review

What text structure has steps?

• Problem/Solution
• Compare/Contrast
• Informational 
• Sequential 

What text structure explains how things are same or different?

• Sequential 
• Problem/Solve
• Compare/Contrast
• Cause/Effect

Before putting the model car together, we gathered our supplies. Then we were able to read and follow the directions. Before long our car was done. 

• Descriptive
• Sequential 

Because a plate of grapes were left out in the hot sun for several hours, they turned into grapes.

• Cause/Effect
• Problem/Solution

What text structure has events that lead to figuring out the problem at the end? 

• Descriptive
• Sequential
• Problem/Solution

What text structure tells more about someone, something, or someplace? 

• Compare/Contrast
• Descriptive
• Cause/Effect

Carol forgot to add yeast to the dough when she was baking. Therefore, her wheat bread did to rise, and she was not able to eat it. 

• Problem/Solution
• Cause/Effect
• Compare/Contrast

Would it surprise you to learn that corn is also a type of grass? It was first grown in central america thousands of years ago. Its seeds are called kernels. Very few kernels grew on wild corn grass. It took thousands of years of choosing the corn grass plants with the biggest seeds, or kernels, to make what we enjoy today as corn on the cob.

• cause and effect
• direction
• problem and solution
• compare and contrast

We observed the crocodile as it stalked a raccoon moving through the moonlight toward the edge of the water. As a result of a noise we made, the raccoon bolted.

• directions
• cause and effect
• compare and contrast
• problem and solution

Differences between two or more things 

• Solution 
• Compare 
• Cause 
• Contrast