Text Structure Exit Ticket

What is Text Structure?

• The main idea of a text.

• The way authors organize information in a text.

• Why the author is writing the text.

What text structure does the author use in Smokejumpers to the Rescue! ?

• Comparison/Contrast

• Cause/Effect

• Problem/Solution

Which is an example of a problem/solution in the text?

• A dangerous wildfire breaks out and smokejumpers arrive to fight the fire.

• The plane bounces like a yo-yo in the wind; a fire rages 2,000 feet below.

• Birds faintly chirp around him; wildfire roars below.

What other text structure did you find?

• Comparison/Contrast

• Cause/Effect

• Sequence

In a problem-and-solution text structure, the writer gives details about a problem and then describes how to correct it or deal with it

• TRUE

• FALSE