Academic Vocabulary

Organization the author uses to show how his ideas are connected

• Text Structure

• Main Idea

• Chronology

• Author's Purpose

Using text clues and knowledge to learn

• Conclude

• Solution

• Inform

Which text structure does an author use when they tell us what happened and why it happened?

• Sequencing

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & Solution

• Description

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• Problem and Solution
• Compare and Contrast
• Cause and Effect
• Description

Which text structure might use words like SIMILAR, DIFFERENT, BOTH, COMMON, SHARE, UNLIKE

• Chronological Order

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

What is the first year shown in this time line?

• 2002

• 2010

• 2003

a line showing dates in the order that events happened

• Chronology

• Time-line

• Effect

• Sequence

Aniya loved to her help her grandmother bake treats . She decided that today she wanted to help make cookies for church. Her grandmother preheated the oven while Aniya mixed the ingredients to create the dough. They both worked together to roll the dough into small balls. Aniya carefully placed the balls onto the pan. Once it was ready, her grandmother put the pan into the oven. They went to watch some television while the cookeds baked. A little while later Aniya smelled smoke from the other room. "Oh no!" she shouted out loud.

If the story continued, what solution (resolution) is most likely to happen?

• They would throw away the cookies and continue watching television.

• They would decided to make a fresh batch of cookies.

• They would decide to go for a walk outside.

an issue needing to be fixed

• Problem

• Cause

• Solution

• Effect

a fix to an issue or problem

• Problem

• Solution

• Cause

• Effect