Text Structures

What is the point of knowing the different text structures?

• They ADD information that is not in the article.

• They help clarify what is in the article.

• They can help define words you don't know.

• It can help with writing essays and understanding the author's purpose.

Match each text structure with its definition

• Tells about a topic and its characteristics

• Description

• ​Explains something that happened and the reasons why

• Chronological

• Describes a problem and how it was solved

• Compare & Contrast

• Tell about events in the order that they happened

• Cause & Effect

• Explains how something is similar to and different from something or someone else

• Problem & Solution

When you are finding similarities and differences within in a text, what text structure is this format?

• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution
• Sequence
• Compare and Contrast

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

The text structure that describes the order steps occurred is called_______.

• Cause and Effect
• Sequence
• Compare and Contrast
• Problem and Siolution

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

This text structure is used to tell us about a topic's characteristics and qualities. It paints a picture of the topic in our heads.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Description

• Problem & Solution

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

This text structure is used to tell about something that happened and what made it happen.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Description

• Problem & Solution

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

This text structure is used to tell us how 2 or more items are alike and also different.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Description

• Problem & Solution

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

This text structure is used to present a problem or dilemma and then tell us some possible ways of fixing the problem.

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Description

• Problem & Solution

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

This text structure is used to explain the chronology of how something happened (dates) or the order in which you should do something (steps).

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Description

• Problem & Solution

• Sequence

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Match each text structure with its signal phrases:

• for instance, for example, such as

• Chronological

• issue, answer, question

• Description

• same, different, however, alike

• Problem & Solution

• because, as a result, therefore

• Compare & Contrast

• first, then, finally

• Cause & Effect