Expository Text Structures

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

• Main Idea and Details
• Problem and Solution
• Cause and Effect
• Comparison

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

• Problem and Solution
• Question and Answer
• Chronological
• Cause and Effect

This text structure tells what is the conflict, or problem, and how it was resolved.

• Main Ideas and Details
• Problem and Solution
• Chronological
• Cause and Effect

The text structure that shows events taking place over time or gives steps is... 

• Chronological
• Description/MI & D
• Cause and Effect
• Question and Answer

"Similar, same, alike, both, on the other hand, instead" are signal words for...

• Comparison
• Description
• Question and Answer
• Cause and Effect

"First, second, following, and finally" are used with ...

• Description
• Problem and Solution
• Cause and Effect
• Chronological

"Issue, as a result, problem, and so" is used in ...

• Cause and Effect
• Description
• Problem and Solution
• Question and Answer

Choose the clue words that indicate chronological order.

• first, next, finally, 8:30, after
• cause, effect, as a result of, because
• problem, solution, promise, struggle
• compare, contrast, similar, different

"Therefore, then, leads to, and since" are used in the text structure...

• Question and Answer
• Description/MI & D
• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution

Differences between two or more things 

• Solution 
• Compare 
• Cause 
• Contrast