Text Structures and Text Features

Added to assist the reader with understanding the information

• Text Structure
• Text Organization
• Text Features
• Text Messages

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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. 

• Cause and Effect
• Chronological
• Problem solution
• Compare/Contrast

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Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem

• Compare/Contrast
• Chronological
• Problem/Solution
• Sequence/Order of Importance

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Chimpanzees and humans are alike in many ways. A baby chimp laughs when its mother tickles it. After chimpanzees fight, they kiss and make up. When one chimpanzee comforts another, it gives it a hug or pat on the back. There are, of course, many ways that chimpanzees and humans are different. Chimpanzees are smaller and stronger than humans. An adult male chimpanzee stands three or four feet tall and weighs about 100 pounds. But a chimpanzee can lift more weight than a man who is six feet tall.

• Compare/Contrast
• Sequence/Order of Importance
• Problem/Solution
• Cause/Effect

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When Americans settled the Midwest, they were challenged by tough soils that resisted their cast iron plows. The Midwest contains some of the richest soil in the world, yet many settlers concluded that the soil was unsuitable for farming because they couldn't break ground. John Deere's steel plow changed all of that. Deere's plow was stronger and lighter than the iron plows people had used up until then. This allowed settlers to open up the tough but rich soil in the Midwest and unlock its agricultural potential. His invention became known as "The Plow that Broke the Plains," and it helped American farmers feed the world.

• Cause/Effect
• Problem/Solution
• Sequence/Order of Importance
• Compare/Contrast

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• Caption
• Index
• Glossary
• Textbox

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• Diagram
• Table of Contents
• Photograph
• Table

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• Map
• Graph
• Caption
• Diagram

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These features tell a reading what will be discussed in a certain section of an article.

• Heading
• Subheading
• Textbox
• Table of Contents

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Expository Text Features is the  way a text is organized and refers to the different forms the author uses to organize the text.

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