Nonfiction Text Structures

Which type of text structure tells you the order of events?

• description

• compare & contrast

• sequence

• cause & effect

Which text structure explains how things are alike and different?

• sequence

• cause & effect

• problem & solution

• compare & contrast

Which text structure tells you how a problem was solved?

• problem & solution

• cause & effect

• sequence

• compare & contrast

Which text structure explains why something happened?

• problem & solution

• fire & brimstone

• compare & contrast

• cause & effect

If a text describes something to you, what is the structure?

• sequence

• cause & effect

• description

• compare & contrast

What signal words might help you to know that a text is organized by cause & effect?

• before, after, finally

• similar, both, however

• problem, solution, solve

• because, therefore, as a result

What signal words might help you to know that a text is organized in a compare & contrast structure?

• before, after, finally

• similar, both, however

• problem, solution, solve

• because, therefore, as a result

What signal words might help you to know that a text is organized by sequencing events?

• before, after, finally

• similar, both, however

• problem, solution, solve

• because, therefore, as a result

When you compare two or more things, what are you doing?

• writing about how two or more things are alike

• writing about how two or more things are different

• writing about how a problem is solved

• writing about why something happened

When you show how two or more things contrast, what are you doing?

• writing about how two or more things are alike

• writing about how two or more things are different

• writing about how a problem is solved

• writing about why something happened