Expository Text Structures

What is the text structure that presents steps in a process?

• Sequence text structure

• Chronological text structure

• Description text structure

• Compare and contrast text structure

The author explains someone or something in detail.

• cause and effect

• description

• problem and solution

• proposition and support

The author explains the process or order of something.

• cuase and effect

• compare and contrast

• sequence and order

• description

What the author uses to organize the selection.

• main idea

• problem and solution

• text structure

• commonplace assertion

The author presents a problem and how to solve it.

• main idea

• problem and solution

• cause and effect

• sequence and order

The author presents an idea or opinion, then supports it with evidence

• main idea

• sequence and order

• proposition and support

• description

The author describes a topic by listing characteristics, features, attributes, and examples

Information is presented by detailing how two or more events, concepts, theories, or things are alike and/or different

The author presents a problem and one or more solutions to the problem

What is the text structure that explains why something happens and the result of it?

• A) Cause and effect

• B) Sequence

• C) Description

• D) Compare and contrast