Non-Fiction Text Structures & Features

Table of contents, the index, and diagrams are examples of what category of a text feature?

• Organizational

• Print

• Graphic

• None of these answers are correct

Which of the following is NOT a text feature?

• table of contents, the index, and headings

• captions, bold words, illustrations, and photographs

• the glossary, labels, and graphs

• cause and effect

Imagery helps the reader understand the text when the author uses _______ as a text structure.

• Cause and Effect

• Descriptive

• Problem/Solution

• Sequencing/Chronological

Which type of text structure describes an issue and at least one way to solve it?

• Chronological
• Cause & Effect
• Problem & Solution
• Compare/Contrast

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. what is the problem?

• Description
• chimpanzees
• chimpanzees are disappearing 
• Sequential

Which type of text structure answers the questions what happened and why?

• Chronological
• Cause & Effect
• Problem & Solution
• Compare/Contrast

Which type of text structure describes events in order (First, Next, Then, Finally)?

• Sequence
• Cause & Effect
• Problem & Solution
• Compare/Contrast

How do mountains like these disappear? The process begins with rain. As it rains, water seeps through cracks and joints in the stone. Chemicals in the water dissolve small grains of rock. Later on, the water freezes and thaws, prying loose bigger pieces of rock. These rocks grind against other rocks as they slide downhill. The wind carries away particles of dust behind by these grinding rocks. In the end it can be said that wind, water, and gravity have hauled away these mountains.

• compare and contrast
• Sequence
• cause and effect
• problem solving

The earth's crust is made up mostly of hard, rocky substances, though some of these substances have crumbles into dirt from years of exposure to wind and rain and roots of plants. That crust is many miles thick (though the part under the ocean is thinner than the part on land). Underneath the crust is a layer called the mantle. The mantle is about 1,800 miles thick. Below the mantle is the earth's core, which is made up of two layers called the inner core and the outer core.

• Chronological order
• cause and effect
• description
• problem and solution

Choose the signal words that indicate sequential/chronological order.

• first, next, 1990, April 3rd
• due to, since, as a result of, because

• help, resolution, promise, struggle

• while, instead, similar, different