Text Structure Authors Purpose

If a text is written with a trouble or problem happening, but the problem is solve....What type of text structure is that?

• cause and effect

• problem and solution

• sequence

• description

What text structure would an author use when writing about an endangered species and how we can save it from extinction?

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• Description

• Problem and Solution

What text structure would an author use when informing the reader about dolphins?

• Compare and Contrast

• Description

• Chronological Order/ Sequence

• Problem and Solution

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

What text structure would an author use when writing about the life of Henry Ford?

• Compare & Contrast

• Chronological Order/ Sequence

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & 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

the reason an author writes about a particular topic; the author’s message

• author's purpose/craft

• text features

• graphic features

• evidence

the patterns authors construct as they organize their ideas and provide supporting details

• summarize

• paraphrase

• organization pattern/text structure

• rhetorical question