Non Fiction Text Structures Lesson

The school hallway carried the smell of wax, varnish, and cleaning supplies. Bright,yellow light glared into the hall through the freshly cleaned windows. This highlighted the deep scrapes in the lockers, the chips in the wall tiles, and the spider webs hanging in the corner.

The text structure in this passage is:

• description

• compare & contrast

• sequence

• problem & solution

What type of text structure is this passage? The earth's crust is made up mostly of hard, rocky substances. That crust is many miles thick (though the part under the ocean is thinner than the part on land). Underneath the crust is a layer called the mantle. The mantle is about 1,800 miles thick. Below the mantle is the earth's core, which is made up of two layers called the inner core and the outer core.

• Chronology / Sequential

• Cause and Effect

• Description

• Problem and Solution

What type of text structure is written below?

As most residents know, Pleasantville has an ongoing problem with parking in the downtown area. At peak times, such as weekday evenings and weekend afternoons, potential customers end up circling the business district looking for parking. The city council has introduced two measures to address this problem. First, the site of the old public swimming pool (which has not been used for more than a decade) will be filled and reclaimed as free municipal parking. Second, plans are being undertaken to convert an abandoned warehouse on Bond Street to an indoor parking garage. It is the Council’s hope that residents and customers will begin to see some relief from the parking problem in as little as six months from now.

• Description

• Compare and Contrast

• Order and Sequence

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

CHOOSE THE CORRECT TEXT STRUCTURE.

All candy has a different process by which it is made. M&Ms are popular chocolate treats made from a mixture of liquid milk chocolate and a hard candy shell. First, the chocolate is

poured into small molds. Then, it is left to cool and harden. A conveyor belt transfers the chocolate to another section of a factory, where the chocolates are coated with the hard candy

shell. Finally, they are coated with color!

• description

• compare and contrast

• cause and effect

• sequence/.chronological order

• problem - solution

CHOOSE THE CORRECT TEXT STRUCTURE.

Although it may be tempting, eating too much candy

can have a negative impact on your body and how you

feel. Munching on too much candy can cause cavities

in your teeth from all of the sugar. It is also very high

in “empty” calories, which means the calories provide

you no nutrients, just fat and calories from sugar!

This can cause you to gain too much unhealthy weight.

Too much sugar can also cause you to have a “foggy”

brain, slowing down your memory and making you

tired.

• description

• sequence/chronological order

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

• problem - solution

Type of writing that can contain text structures and text features

• Non Fiction

• Historical Fiction

• Fiction

• Realistic Fiction

What text structure explains or describes similarities and differences between 2 or more topics or concepts?

• description / main idea

• problem / solution

• chronological/ sequential order

• compare / contrast

What text structure explains or describes an issue and offers an answer or answers?

• description / main idea

• problem / solution

• chronological/ sequential order

• cause / effect

What text structure explains or describes how 1 event leads to another event?

• chronological/ sequential order

• comparison/ contrast

• problem / solution

• cause / effect

Choose the clue words that indicate PROBLEM AND SOLUTION.

• therefore, cause, effect, consequently

• conclude, a reason for, prevent, help, solve

• later, then, next, Monday

• adjectives