Text Structures

What is text structure?

• Where to find a specific page in a book.

• The way non-fiction text is organized.

• The foundation of a building.

Which is not a type of text structure?

• Cause and effect

• Chronological

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Summarizing

Which clue words (3 answers) show problem and solution structure?

• Result

• Challenge

• Solution

• Difference

Which clue words (2 answers) show compare and contrast?

• Similar

• Different

• First

• Result

This kind of graphic organizer would be helpful for which type of text structure?

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• Chronological

• Problem and Solution

This type of graphic organizer (timeline) would be helpful for this type of text structure:

• Chronological

• Description

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

What is the problem explained in this paragraph?

Freezer burn is when ice crystals form on the surface of ice-cream. These ice crystals can ruin the texture and flavor of the ice cream. But you can prevent freezer burn. Since freezer burn is caused when melted ice-cream is refrozen, rather than eating your ice-cream from the container as it melts, scoop your ice-cream into a bowl and put the container back in the fridge immediately. Doing this ought to help you solve your problems with freezer burn.

• Rather than eating your ice cream from the container as it melts, scoop your ice cream into a bowl and put the container back in the fridge immediately.

• Freezer burn can ruin the texture and flavor of ice cream.

• You can prevent freezer burn.

• Doing this ought to help you solve your problems with freezer burn.

Which text structure is used in this paragraph?

Ice-cream is a delicious frozen treat that comes in a many different colors and flavors. Two of my favorite flavors are strawberry and chocolate. Though both of these flavors are delicious, strawberry may contain pieces of fruit while chocolate usually will not. Even though more chocolate ice-cream is sold across the country annually than strawberry, each flavor tastes great inside of a milk shake.

• Chronological

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Which text structure is used in this paragraph?

No one knows the true origin of ice-cream, but the first published ice-cream recipe appears in “Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts,” a cook book that was printed in London in 1718. Sometime around 1832, an African American confectioner named Augustus Jackson created multiple ice cream recipes and invented a superior technique to manufacture ice cream. Ice cream soda was invented around 1874, but the real breakthrough may have been at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, when the American ice-cream cone was unveiled!

• Description

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• Chronological

Which text structure is used in this paragraph?

Have you ever had an ice-cream headache? That’s when a painful sensation resonates in your head after eating something cold (usually ice-cream) on a hot day. This pain is produced by the dilation of a nerve center in the roof of your mouth. The nerve center is overreacting to the cold by trying to heat your brain. Ice-cream headaches have turned many smiles to frowns.

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Chronological

• Cause and Effect