Understanding Nonfiction Text Structures

What term is also used to refer to text structure?

• Author's guide

• Organizational pattern

• Composition map

• Writing blueprint

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Which text structure includes using details to help picture a subject?

• Problem and Solution

• Cause-and-Effect

• Description List

• Sequence of Events

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What signals a Cause-and-Effect structure?

• First, then, finally

• Similar, different, unlike

• Problem, reason, solution

• Because, therefore, as a result

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How is a Problem and Solution structure identified?

• By presenting a problem followed by its solution

• By describing events in chronological order

• Through comparing two subjects

• By listing characteristics

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What structure describes events in the order they happened?

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause-and-Effect

• Description List

• Sequence of Events

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What term is used for how an author organizes information in a text?

• Paragraph format

• Grammar pattern

• Text structure

• Writing style

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Which of the following is NOT a type of nonfiction text structure?

• Problem and solution

• Argument and debate

• Cause-and-effect

• Description list

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What text structure uses signal words like 'because' and 'as a result'?

• Sequence of events

• Description list

• Compare and contrast

• Cause-and-effect

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Which text structure would likely use a Venn diagram to organize information?

• Problem and solution

• Cause-and-effect

• Compare and contrast

• Sequence of events

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What is the main purpose of the description list text structure?

• To show time order

• To argue a point

• To describe using details

• To show differences

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