Text Structures 6th Grade

Includes details to help you picture a person, place, thing or idea

• Problem & Solution
• Compare & Contract
• Sequence of Events
• Description or List

Explains why something happened and what happened as a result

• Description or List
• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution
• Compare and Contrast

Presents a problem and explains how it is solved

• Description or List
• Cause & Effect
• Problem and Solution
• Sequence of Events

Presents the similarities and/or difference between two items.

• Description or List
• Cause and Effect
• Compare & Contrast
• Sequence of Events

Describes events in order of when they happened.

• Cause & Effect
• Problem and Solution
• Sequence of Events
• Sequence of Events

The Zebra is black and white. It smells like manure.  It has black shiny eyes, a mane and a tail.  It is a beautiful animal.

• Description or List
• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution

The zebra eats leaves and then it defecates.

• Description
• Cause & Effect
• Problem and Solution

The zebra  ran too slowly and was eaten by a cougar.

• Problem & Solution
• Sequence of Events
• Cause and Effect

The zebra in the zoo is very sick and it is not eating.  The zoo called the vet and the vet gave the zebra medication.

• Description
  Compare & Contrast
• Cause & Effect
• Problem & Solution

Although zebras and horses both belong to the family equus and have interbred successfully, zebras have never been truly domesticated and are more physically similar to donkeys than horses. Both can snicker and snort, but zebras bray when horses whinny.

• Description
• Cause & Effect
• Compare and Contrast