Text Structure Review

This text structure describes a topic with facts, details, and examples.

• description

• sequence

• compare and contrast

• text structure

This text structure tells the events in the order in which they occurred.

• problem and solution

• description

• text structures

• sequential order (sequence)

Authors use these to organize their writing so the reader can understand it.

• description

• text structures

• compare and contrast

• cause and effect

This text structure gives step by step directions and tells how to do something.

• sequence

• description

• cause and effect

• simple procedure

This text structure tells how tow or more things are the same and different.

• compare and contrast

• problem and solution

• text structure

• cause and effect

This text structure explains how one event causes other events to happen.

• problem and solution

• cause and effect

• description

• simple procedure

This text structure relates a problem and the possible ways to solve that problem.

• cause and effect

• sequential order

• problem and solution

• simple and procedure

This text structure uses key words such as:

one answer is, one reason for, to solve

• problem and solution

• compare and contrast

• simple procedure

• cause and effect

This text structure uses key words such as:

results, because, if...then, as a result

• compare and contrast

• cause and effect

• text structures

• description

This is an example of which text structure?

1. Lay down two pieces of bread.

2. Spread peanut butter onto bread.

3. Add jelly onto the peanut butter.

4. Put the two pieces of bread together.

• simple procedure

• sequence