OP Quick Check - Description / Compare and Contrast

What is the organizational text structure Description?

• describes a topic, idea, person, place, or thing by listing its features, characteristics, or examples
• describes the order or tells the steps to follow to do something or make something
• time order in which events occur
• key concept and information that supports the concept

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.W.6.2A

CCSS.W.6.2B

What questions does the  organizational text structure Description answer?

• Why did something happen?  What were the results of it happening?
• What steps are listed?  Do the steps have to happen in a particular order?
• What is being described?  What does it look like?  How is it being described?
• How are the two things alike?  How are they different?  What do they have in common?

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

What is the organizational text structure Compare & Contrast?

• describes a topic, idea, person, place, or thing by listing its features, characteristics, or examples
• shows how two or more things are alike and/or different
• time order in which events occur
• key concept and information that supports the concept

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2A

What questions does the  organizational text structure Compare & Contrast answer?

• Why did something happen?  What were the results of it happening?
• What steps are listed?  Do the steps have to happen in a particular order?
• What is being described?  What does it look like?  How is it being described?
• How are the two things alike?  How are they different?  What do they have in common?

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.5.6

The text structure of _______________ discusses similarities & differences between two or more subject. 

• chronological 
• compare & contrast 
• description 
• order & sequence 

The text structure of _________________ gives many details or characteristics on a specific top. 

• description 
• cause & effect
• problem & solution 
• chronological 

Clue words - different adjectives, characteristics, for example, another 

• cause & effect
• order & sequence 
• description 
• chronological 

Clue words - like, both, similar, different, neither, same, on the other hand, differ

• cause & effect

• order & sequence

• chronological

• compare & contrast

This type of writing considers similarities and differences.

• Cause & effect
• Compare & contrast
• Problem & Solution
• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.W.6.2A

CCSS.W.6.9B

This type of writing includes many adjectives, examples, or details.

• Cause and Effect
• Description
• Problem & Solution
• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2B

CCSS.W.6.3D