Main Idea and Text Structures BINGO

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.

Which text structure is in this passage?

• Compare and Contrast B5

• Description B1

• Chronological/Sequence B3

• Problem and Solution B2

The ice-cream shop around the corner from my house has the best ice-cream in the city. When you first walk inside, there is a long chrome counter with matching stools extending to alongside the far wall. Right where the counter stops, the booth seating begins. There are lots of old-timey knickknacks on the walls and chrome napkin holders on all the tables. My favorite part of the shop is behind the counter glass, where they keep all of the ice-cream flavors. A rainbow of delicious sugary flavors is kept cool and delicious behind the counter glass.

Which text structure is used?

• Problem and Solution G1

• Cause and Effect G5

• Description G2

• Compare and Contrast G4

Freezer burn may have wasted more ice-cream than sidewalks. If you don’t know, 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 issues with freezer burn.

Which text structure is used?

• Description I3

• Problem and Solution I4

• Chronological/Sequence I1

• Compare and Contrast I2

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!

Which text structure is used?

• Compare and Contrast O3

• Description O2

• Chronological/Sequence O1

• Cause and Effect O4

Making ice-cream is not easy. Cream and sugar have to first be mixed in a frozen container. Ingredients may be added at this point, if desired. The mixture must be stirred and whipped until the cream and sugar mixture is frozen. Depending on the equipment, this may take as long as an hour. After the ice-cream is prepared, it must be kept frozen until it is ready to be enjoyed. Making ice-cream is difficult, but most people would agree that it is worth the trouble.

Which text structure is used?

• Chronological/Sequence I3

• Cause and Effect I2

• Problem and Solution I4

• Compare and Contrast I5

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.

Which text structure is used?

• Chronological/Sequence B5

• Compare and Contrast B1

• Description B2

• Cause and Effect B3

An action and its results are discussed

• Cause and Effect G3

• Problem and Solution G5

• Description G1

• Compare and Contrast G2

Information is organized in order of time or explains how something happens or is done, step-by-step

• Description I5

• Problem and Solution N2

• Chronological/Sequence G1

• Compare and Contrast B4

Describes how something looks or the arrangement of a space

• Compare and Contrast B2

• Description G5

• Problem and Solution N5

• Cause and Effect N2

A difficulty is described and an answer is offered

• Description O2

• Compare and Contrast I3

• Cause and Effect N4

• Problem and Solution G4