Text Structure #2

Which passage uses chronological text structure?

• The Age of Dinosaurs

• Vicious Predators

• What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

• Fossil Mishap

Which of these passages uses cause and effect text structure?

• Dino the Dinosaur

• Creating a Dinosaur Sculpture

• What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

• Fossil Mishap

Which passage uses problem and solution text structure?

• The Age of Dinosaurs

• Vicious Predators

• What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

• Fossil Mishap

Which passage uses process text structure?

• What Happened to the Dinosaurs?

• Creating a Dinosaur Sculpture

• Dino the Dinosaur

• The Age of Dinosaurs

Which passage uses compare and contrast text structure?

• Fossil Mishap

• Dino the Dinosaur

• The Age of Dinosaurs

• Vicious Predators

Which of the following options is a SOLUTION for the problem in passage 5?

• You may be led astray.

• The brontosaurus is a type of dinosaur that never existed.

• Think critically about information that you receive.

• Entire generations of school children have been misinformed.

Which of the following steps would come SECOND in the process described in passage 3?

• Bend your pipe cleaner to make the frame of your dinosaur.

• Put your dinosaur on your desk.

• Roll out clay to wrap around the pipe cleaners.

• Paint your dinosaur using non-toxic paint.

Which of the following is the end EFFECT in passage #4?

• Dinosaurs vanished from the planet.

• A gigantic meteorite smashed into the Earth.

• A large dust cloud covered the Earth for many years.

• Plants did not receive sunlight, and large herbivores may have died off.

Which of the following is the last event in chronological order of passage 6?

• Dino the Dinosaur walked to the watering hole.

• Dino heard a loud thumping noise.

• A pack of wild lizards and animals ran through the plains in a frenzy.

• Timmy the Tyrannosaurus Rex ate Dino.

What is one way the two predators in passage 2 are NOT alike? (Meaning, which statement is FALSE?)

• They both used their jaws to kill their prey.

• The two predators were similar in size.

• They both had eyes on the front of their heads.

• They were two of the most feared hunters of the Cretaceous Period.