Text Structures:Comparison and Cause-Effect

What is the definition of Reading Text Structures?

• The main idea of a story.

• The main way an author organizes events and ideas in an informational text.

• The author's purpose for writing: persuade,inform, entertain.

• The details that support the main idea

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A comparison text structure........

• has a cause and effect

• has a problem and a solution

• shows the similarities and differences

• shows a chronological order

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A cause and effect text structure.......

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

• describes a problem first and then its solution.

• describes events in the order they occur.

• connects events that happen with why they happen.

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An author might use these signal words to show a cause and an effect text structure.

• like, unlike,

• challenge, fixed, resolved

• therefore, because, as a result

• first, next, during

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An author might use these signal words to show a comparison text structure.

• because, as a result, therefore

• similar, different, but, however

• challenge, resolved,

• first, next, last

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What kind of text structure is the author using in this informational passage about rain clouds?

Inside a cloud, the water droplets move around very quickly. When they move they may bump into each other. As a result, they may stick together. If they stick together, then they start to get bigger.

• comparison text structure

• problem-solution text structure

• cause and effect text structure

• chronological order text structure

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What kind of text structure is the author using in the following passage?

Like people today, ancient peoples wanted to keep their teeth clean. They also used toothbrushes. However,

their brushes were very different. Our toothbrushes are plastic with nylon bristles, but the first toothbrushes were

made of twigs with crushed ends.

• problem-solution

• chronological order

• cause and effect

• comparison

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