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Informational Text Structures

Authored by Allison Jaime

English

8th Grade

CCSS covered

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Informational Text Structures
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Which type of text structure describes an issue and at least one way to solve it?

Chronological
Cause & Effect
Problem & Solution
Compare/Contrast

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which type of text structure answers the questions what happened and why?

Chronological
Cause & Effect
Problem & Solution
Compare/Contrast

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Media Image

Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem.

Description
Compare & contrast
Problem & solution
Sequential

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Media Image

A chimpanzee’s body is made for climbing and swinging in the trees. First, it uses its long arms to reach a branch. Next, with its flexible hands and feet, it grabs and hooks on to the branch. Finally, it swings from that branch to another branch of tree.

Compare & contrast
Sequence
Descriptive
Cause & effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Media Image

It is fun to read about chimpanzees. All wild chimpanzees live in Africa. They live mostly in thick rain forests and in woodlands. There are two types, or species, of chimpanzees—the common chimpanzee and the bonobo, also known as the pygmy chimpanzee.

Descriptive
Cause & Effect 
Problem & Solution
Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

In this type of writing, the reader will see words/phrases such as because, as a result of, and due to.

cause & effect
problem & solution
order & sequence
compare & contrast

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which text structure would use the following key words? 
both, same, like, unlike, at the same time

Compare-Contrast
Description
Chronological
Cause-Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

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