Exit Ticket 11/27/23: Text Structure Part 1

If a text structure is chronological, what does that mean? 

• The story is organized by comparing and contrasting two different things. 

• The story is organized by sharing a problem and then presenting possible solutions. 

• The story is organized by time, telling about events that happened first, then next, then last. 

• The story is organized by explaining the cause of something and then revealing the effect that happened. 

Pick the sentence that is told chronologically: 

• First, she went to the store, then, she bought some ice cream, and last, she ate all of it. 

• Cows and horses both live on a farm, but cows are used to get dairy and horses are used to ride from place to place. 

• When a bike road out into the street, it caused a car to swerve and hit the bank, which allowed everyone to steal all the bank’s money and run away. 

• When Angela lost her dog, she thought she could either put up lost dog signs or run around the neighborhood screaming her dog’s name. 

If a text structure is comparing and contrasting, what does that mean? 

• The story is organized by comparing and contrasting two different things. 

• The story is organized by sharing a problem and then presenting possible solutions. 

• The story is organized by time, telling about events that happened first, then next, then last. 

• The story is organized by explaining the cause of something and then revealing the effect that happened. 

Pick the sentence that has a compare and contrast text structure: 

• First, she went to the store, then, she bought some ice cream, and last, she ate all of it. 

• Cows and horses both live on a farm, but cows are used to get dairy and horses are used to ride from place to place. 

• When a bike road out into the street, it caused a car to swerve and hit the bank, which allowed everyone to steal all the bank’s money and run away. 

• When Angela lost her dog, she thought she could either put up lost dog signs or run around the neighborhood screaming her dog’s name.