Text Structures

No one knows the true origin of ice-cream, but the first published ice-cream recipe appears in “Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts,” a cook book that was printed in London in 1718. Sometime around 1832, an African American confectioner named Augustus Jackson created multiple ice cream recipes and invented a superior technique to manufacture ice cream. Ice cream soda was invented around 1874, but the real breakthrough may have been at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, when the American ice-cream cone was unveiled!

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

• chronological / sequence

• problem and solution

• descriptive

Key words are: problem, solution, resolution

• Problem & Solution

• Cause & Effect

• Chronological Order

• Compare & Contrast

• Descriptive

The text structure that shows the order of a series of events taking place over time or gives steps is... 

• Sequencing/ Chronological

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

In which text structure would you find the signal words, "first," "next,"and "finally"?

• Sequencing/ Chronological Order

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

This text structure is "how are things in the text similar or different."

• Sequencing/ Chronological

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

The text structure that is written in a style that tells what happened and why it happens is...

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Sequencing/ Chronological

• Cause and Effect

In which text structure would you find the signal words, "as a result of" and "due to"?

• Cause and Effect

• Sequencing/ Chronological Order

• Compare and Contrast

In which text structure would you find the signal words, "similarly" and "however"?

• Sequencing/ Chronological Order

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

Similar, same, alike, both, on the other hand, instead are keywords for which text structure?

• Compare and Contrast

• Sequencing

• Cause and Effect

"Before, second, following, and lastly" are keywords for which text structure?

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

• Sequencing