Text Structure Part 1

What is text structure?

• a way an author doesn't organize information in a text.

• a way an author organizes information in a text.

• the main idea of a text

• the study of unicorns

What is a comparison text structure?

• gives the causes and effects of everything around you

• compare and contrast

• describes how two or more things are alike and different.

• describes what happens and why

What is cause and effect?

• what happens

• why something happens

• main idea

• when one thing brings brings about another thing

Identify the structure of the following sentences:

Airplanes became popular because the Wright Brothers made their first flight in North Carolina.

• comparison

• historical text

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

What is another way to say text structure?

• sequence

• chronology

• organizational method

• topic

What is a similarity in bats and birds?

• they both fly

• bats live caves but birds live in nests

• bats are able to see in the dark

• bats have fur but birds have feathers

What does a comparison text structure do for the reader?

• shows the similarities of two things

• it gives the causes and effects of everything going on around them.

• it helps the reader understand nonfiction

• the tells the reader similarities and differences about a topic

What is one way to signal a comparison text structure?

• both

• as a result

• many

• next

What is one way to signal cause and effect?

• both

• as a result

• similar

• first

Identify the structure of the following sentences:

Elephants and rhinos are very powerful animals. They both are capable of fighting off predators with their amazing strength.

• cause and effect

• sequence

• main idea

• comparison