Text Structure Identification Practice

First and Last Name

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

Ideas or events are shared in the order they occurred.

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

Explains why something happened and what happened as a result.

Identifies an issue and suggests one or more fixes.

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

The topic word or its synonyms are often repeated.

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

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

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

same, opposed to, likewise, although, similarly.

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

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