Informational Text Structure & Text Features

Steps or phases of a process are specified without cause-effect relationships being implied.

• Sequential

• Chronological

• Question-Answer

• Description

Date or time ordering of when events occur

• Sequential

• Chronological

• Question-Answer

• Description

Used when the author poses a question and answers it or provides a call to action within the text; often used in interviews

• Sequential

• Chronological

• Question-Answer

• Description

Identification of a topic and elaboration of important ideas, characteristics, or attributes

• Sequential

• Chronological

• Question-Answer

• Description

Shows similarities and dissimilarities between objects, actions, ideas, or concepts

• Compare- Contrast

• Cause- Effect

• Problem- Solution

• Chronological Order

Explores the implication that the effect is produced by a specific cause or that consequences follow from a specified event; often has a call to action.

• Compare- Contrast

• Cause- Effect

• Problem- Solution

• Chronological Order

Presents a problem and shows how it can be or has been solved

• Compare- Contrast

• Cause- Effect

• Problem- Solution

• Chronological Order

-indicates topic and/or central idea

• Title

• Heading/ Subheading

• Bold Print

• Italic

indicates the main idea or topic of a section of the text

• Title

• Heading/ Subheading

• Bold Print

• Italic

signals important vocabulary important to the understand of the text

• Title

• Heading/ Subheading

• Bold Print

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