Text Structures

Which structure tells the order that events occur?

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & Solution

• Chronological Order

• Compare & Contrast

• Descriptive

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Key words are: however, similarly, like, unlike

• Chronological Order

• Compare & Contrast

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & Solution

• Descriptive

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Tells what happened and why it happened.

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Chronological Order

• Cause & Effect

• Descriptive

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Key words are: first, next, then, last, years, numbers

• Chronological Order

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & Solution

• Compare & Contrast

• Descriptive

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Every morning, Gabby wakes up at about 7:00 AM. The first thing she does is make her bed and pick out the clothes she is going to wear. Then, She brushes her teeth and takes a shower. After her shower, she dries her hair and gets dressed.

• Chronological Order

• Compare & Contrast

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & Solution

• Descriptive

While oranges and lemons are both citrus fruits that grow on trees, they are different colors and have very different tastes.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Chronological Order

• Problem & Solution

• Descriptive

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Every year, thousands of car accidents occur because of drivers distracted by their phones. Safe drive Corporation developed a product that will disable cell phones inside a car, and many people feel this product will help save lives.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Chronological Order

• Problem & Solution

• Descriptive

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

Helps you make a picture in your head

• Descriptive

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & Solution

• Compare & Contrast

• Chronological Order

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

The Loggerhead is an easy turtle to identify. The Loggerhead has a reddish-brown upper shell and a dull brown to yellowish lower shell. Hard scales cover the shells and the number of scales is used to figure out what type of Loggerhead it is.

• Cause & Effect

• Chronological Order

• Descriptive

• Problem & Solution

• Compare & Contrast

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Julianna and Gianna 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

• Compare/Contrast

• Chronological

• Problem/Solution

• Sequence/Order of Importance