Identifying Text Structure

Authors use different text structures to ______________.

• give facts about their topic

• organize their ideas

• research their topic

• add pictures to their writing

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is the organizational text structure Cause and Effect?

• Why something happened and the result of it happening.
• 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

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is the organizational text structure Sequence/Chronological Order?

• 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.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What questions does the  organizational text structure Cause and Effect 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.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which text structure would use the following key words? 
as a result, because, since, due to

• Problem-Solution
• Description
• Chronological
• Cause-Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which text structure would use the following key words? 
propose, conclude, suggest, reason, solve

• Problem-Solution
• Description
• Chronological
• Cause-Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which text structure would use the following key words? 
both, same, like, unlike, at the same time

• Compare-Contrast
• Description
• Chronological
• Cause-Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which text structure would I use to tell you how to play a board game? 

• Compare-Contrast
• Sequence
• Chronological
• Cause-Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which text structure would I use to tell about the history of women's rights? 

• Compare-Contrast
• Sequence
• Chronological
• Cause-Effect

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5