Text Structures Informational

writing that portrays events that actually occurred and people that actually exist or existed

• fiction

• nonfiction

• novel

• literature

organizational methods an author uses to make his meaning clear, support his purpose, and develop his point of view

• feature

• category

• structure

• theme

Choose the correct organizational structure:

author explains a topic using descriptive details or characteristics, and is broken into sections with main ideas and supporting details

• Cause and Effect

• Description

• Chronological/Order and Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

Choose the correct organizational structure:

presents information or arguments in a chain to lay out steps in a process, series of events, or a hierarchy

• Cause and Effect

• Description

• Chronological/Order and Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

Choose the correct organizational structure:

presents a problem shows how it can be (or has been) solved; may give several possible solutions

• Cause and Effect

• Description

• Chronological/Order and Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

What text structure is being used in this scenario?

• Compare and Contrast

• Sequence/Chronological

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

Popular Sports

• Chronological

• Problem and solution

• Compare and contrast

• Spatial / descriptive

• Cause and effect

Studying for a Test

Believe it or not, as important as it is, many students do not know how to study for a test. Well, studying for a test is easy. The first thing that you must do is take out your notes. Open your notes up to the section that you are supposed to review. Read what you wrote in your notebook. When you are done, close your notebook and see if you remember the ideas that you were studying. Still don’t remember? Open your notebook back up a try again.

• Chronological

• Problem and solution

• Sequence/process

• Spatial / descriptive

• Cause and effect

Eligibility Being involved in after school sports and clubs is not a right. It is a privilege. Therefore, students have to meet eligibility requirements. If students have any “D”s or “F”s, they are not allowed to play. Also, if students have behavior issues in class, they cannot be on the team or in the club. Lastly, students need to keep good attendance. If students miss school, they most certainly cannot come to practice. Being on a team is a lot of responsibility. If students are not proving to be responsible, they will not be permitted to be in clubs or teams.

• Chronological

• Problem and solution

• Compare and contrast

• Spatial / descriptive

• Cause and effect

Low Test Scores

Many students have been getting low scores on tests and this is upsetting to parents, teachers, and students. Low test scores show that teachers aren’t teaching effectively or that students aren’t learning. Either way it’s an issue with which we are concerned. I propose the following: any teacher who is giving a test should open up their classroom for study groups the night and morning before the test. Maybe by giving students extra opportunities to study, we can improve students’ test scores.

• Chronological

• Problem and solution

• Compare and contrast

• Spatial / descriptive

• Cause and effect