Text Structure

Text structure refers to...

• The way the author titles the text

• The way authors organize information in a text

• The way authors conclude the text

Text that examines the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, ideas, etc.

• Description

• Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Text that identifies a problem and then proposes one or more solutions to the problem.

• Description

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

Text that is written where it explains the reason something happens (why) and the result of it happening (what).

• Description

• Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Text that explains a topic, person, place, or thing by listing characteristics, examples, or features

• Description

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

Text that gives the reader a chronological order of events or a list of steps in a procedure.

• Problem and Solution

• Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

The following signal words are in this text structure: causes, because, since, if/then, due to, as a result, reason, consequently

• Problem and Solution

• Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

The following signal words are in this text structure: *dates in order, first, second, third, next, before, after, finally, then, next, earlier

• Description

• Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

The following signal words are in this text structure: adjectives, characteristics, for example, another, for instance

• Description

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

The following signal words are in this text structure: like, both, neither, on the other hand, in contrast, while, most, same, either, as well as, like, and unlike, as opposed to

• Description

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect