Text Structure Identification Practice

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Explains a topic, idea, person, place, or thing by giving details about its features, characteristics, or examples.

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Ideas or events are shared in the order they occurred.

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Discusses how ideas, events, or things are alike and how they are different.

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Explains why something happened and what happened as a result.

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Identifies an issue and suggests one or more fixes.

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Look for words like on, over, beyond, within, and descriptive adjectives.

The topic word or its synonyms are often repeated.

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Words indicating order such as first, second, before, after,

finally, then, next, earlier, later, last, following, soon.

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Words such as while, yet, but, either, like, unlike,

same, opposed to, likewise, although, similarly.

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Phrases like because, since, thus, so that, if...then,

therefore, due to, led to, as a result, for this reason.

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