Text Structure

Choose the correct text structure: "In her first well-known photographs, Margaret made the production of steel look magnificent, mysterious, and awe-inspiring. Her photos, filled with streams of melted steel and flying sparks, caught the eye of someone who would change her life."

• Chronological Order

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Problem and Solution

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CCSS.RI.4.5

Choose the correct text structure: "Her mother gave Margaret her first camera in 1921, when she was 17 years old. In 1929, Henry Luce invited Margaret to work at Fortune Magazine. She jumped at the chance and became the first woman in a new field called photojournalism. In 1930, she was the first photographer from a Western country to be allowed into the Soviet Union (now Russia). When World War II broke out in 1939, Margaret became the first female war correspondent. This is a journalist who covers stories first hand from a war zone. In 1941, she traveled to the Soviet Union again and was the only foreign photographer in Moscow when German forces invaded."

• Chronological Order

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Problem and Solution

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CCSS.RI.4.5

Match the text structure to its correct description.

• Cause and Effect

• describe a problem and offer a solution

• Compare and Contrast

• describe a process or series of steps in sequential order

• Sequential

• present causes and their effects

• Chronological

• compare and contrast information

• Problem and Solution

• tell about events in chronological order

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CCSS.RI.4.5

What’s the text structure?

Why was the Great Chicago Fire so disastrous? After all, Chicago had fire departments and fire alarms. One reason for the terrible fire is that the alarm malfunctioned. The local fire company noticed the fire by accident as it was returning from another fire. As another problem, a watchman who saw the flames directed other fire companies to a location that was nearly a mile away from the fire. Because of these two problems, a fire that could have been controlled rapidly spread across the city.

• Chronological order

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

• Problem and solution

• Description

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CCSS.RI.4.5

What’s the text structure?

Daniel Sullivan was the first to notice the flames coming from the O’Leary barn at around 8:30 pm on October 8. A problem with the alarm box made it impossible for the people in the area to call for the fire department. By 9:30 pm, the entire block was blazing. In another 3 hours, there were fires all over Chicago. The heavy wind coming from the lake only made the fire bigger. It would be another day before the fire would be completely out. By that time, 17,500 buildings had been burned.

• Chronological order

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

• Problem and solution

• Description

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CCSS.RI.4.5

What’s the text structure?

After the fire, thousands of people were left homeless. Many escaped the fire with nothing except the clothes on their backs. Providing all of these people with food, clean water, and shelter was a huge task. Luckily, the city quickly formed a Relief and Aid Society. This group started giving out the food donations that were pouring in from other cities. The society built places for people to live, gathered the tools that people needed to rebuild their houses, and even vaccinated 64,000 people against smallpox.

• Chronological order

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

• Problem and solution

• Description

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CCSS.RI.4.5

What’s the text structure?

Chicago changed in many ways after the fire. Before the fire, most of the buildings were less than five stories high. The buildings that were constructed after the fire, however, were some of the first skyscrapers in the country. Before the fire, most of the houses were made of wood. After the fire, people chose to build their houses out of stone or brick. There were changes in where people lived, as well. The poor people in the city lived close to the center of the city before the fire. After the fire, they moved into neighborhoods that were farther away from the downtown area.

• Chronological order

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

• Problem and solution

• Description

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CCSS.RI.4.5

What’s the text structure?

By Monday night, the town of Chicago was burning. People described it as terrible, but amazing. The flames were brighter than anything people had ever seen. The harsh winds swept the fire across the city with terrible speed. For many who watched, it was a sight to remember for the rest of their lives.

• Chronological order

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

• Problem and solution

• Description

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CCSS.RI.4.5

How do you feel about your knowledge over text structures?

• Great! I can answer anything you throw at me!

• Good! I will do well on questions over theme

• Okay. I might need a little more practice

• Not Okay. I still do not get something.

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.5

Reflection: Which text structure do you find the most interesting to read about? Why?

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5