Expository Text Structure

What is text structure?

• The author's way of loving a text

• The author's way of organizing a text

• The author's way of typing a text

• The author's way of researching a text

What is sequence?

• items or events in order

• causes and effects or facts that happen as a result

• describes a topic using details and examples

• information about 2 or more things that are alike or different

What does it mean to compare?

• Things that are different

• Things that are the same

• Things that are annoying

• Things that are in order

What does it mean to contrast?

• Things that are different

• Things that are the same

• Things that are in order

• Things you order at McDonald's

What is problem and solution?

• Events of a text in order

• There is a problem, and there are ways to fix it

• There is a problem, and no ways to fix it

• causes and the effects that happen

What is cause and effect?

• a problem with ways to fix it

• causes and the effects that happen

• effects and the causes that happen

• describing a topic with details

What is description?

• a prescription you take

• describes a text with details

• describes a text with a problem and solution

• events that are in order

Which text structure is this sentence?:

"I did not do my homework, as a result, I get a bad grade and my parents are mad at me."

• sequence

• problem and solution

• description

• cause and effect

Which text structure is this sentence?

"Students wearing slides in school is a big problem, one way to stop this is to give them detention if they wear slides."

• sequence

• cause and effect

• problem and solution

• description

Which text structure is this text?

"Dobie9 was built in 2017 and 2018. It has over 100 classrooms, a large cafeteria, and the nicest library. Dobie9 is the newest campus in Pasadena ISD district."

• problem and solution

• description

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast