What is a text structure?

• The way the text looks (font, spacing, etc.)

• The way the information and / or events are organized

• The reason the author wrote the text

• The message or moral of the story

Match the text structure to its correct description.

• Compare / Contrast

• Aims to show the relationship between two or more ideas.

• Descriptive

• Contains vivid language to create a visual representation of ideas.

• Cause & Effect

• Shows the connection between what has happened and its impact or result.

• Chronological

• Uses time order or logical sequence to convey meaning.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Select the signal words that would indicate a descriptive text structure.

• First, Last, Finally

• Acrobatic. Adorable. Adventurous

• Above, Below, Beside

• Consequently, Thus, Since

• Unlike, Similarly, In the Same Way

Organize the signal words / phrases into the correct text structure category.

Groups:

(a) Descriptive

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(b) Compare / Contrast

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(c) Chronological or Sequential

,

(d) Cause & Effect

• As a result

• Because

• Such as

• Similarly

• For example

• On the one hand ... on the other hand

• For instance

• First

• Next

• Due to

• Unlike

• After

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

What is the effect in the sentence:

"I ate too much during the holidays, so I gained five pounds."

• ...so I gained five pounds.

• I ate too much during the holidays

Choose the correct text structure.

"Her mother gave Margaret her first camera in 1921, when she was 17 years old. In 1929, Henry Luce invited Margaret to work at Fortune Magazine. She jumped at the chance and became the first woman in a new field called photojournalism. In 1930, she was the first photographer from a Western country to be allowed into the Soviet Union. When World War II broke out in 1939, Margaret became the first female war correspondent (a journalist who covers stories first hand from a war zone). In 1941, she traveled to the Soviet Union again and was the only foreign photographer in Moscow when German forces invaded."

• Chronological Order

• Compare / Contrast

• Descriptive

• Cause & Effect

What best illustrates chronological / sequential order?

• Recipe

• Venn Diagram

• Diary

• Bar Chart

Select the signal words indicating a descriptive text structure.

"My Uber driver last night was gross. For example, he smelled like a mix of campfire and old sweaty sock. His greasy blonde hair blew back towards me as we drove, and I tried not to look in the rearview mirror at his crusty, yellow mustache. I'm still having nightmares."

• Uber

• greasy blonde hair

• For example,

• crusty, yellow

• nightmares

Choose the signal words that indicate chronological /sequential order.

• First, After, Next

• On the Contrary, However, Although,

• Due To, Nevertheless, Accordingly

• Beautiful, Gentle, Caring

Select the correct text structure.

"We began moving forward. The eerie silence of that moment would be forever etched into my memory. All I could hear was my own heartbeat and the sound of boots clicking on the stone."

• Cause / Effect

• Sequential or Chronological

• Descriptive

• Compare & Contrast