Determining Text Structure

Which text structure would a recipe follow?

• Chronological Order

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

• Description

Which text structure would an article titled "Cowboys vs Packers" follow?

• Chronological Order

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Description

Which of the following are Text Structures?

• Description

• Main Idea

• Sequential Order

• Problem/Solution

The following CLUE WORDS pertain to which text structure...yellow, tall, green, soft, long, narrow, smooth

• Chronological Order

• Compare and Contrast

• Description

• Cause and Effect

When the author explains what happened and why it happened, this text structure is:

• compare and contrast

• cause and effect

• chronological

• problem and solution

Choose the group of clue words that authors use to explain cause and effect.

• as a result, so, because, if, when...

• similar, different, same as, opposites...

• first, years, dates, times, last, next,...

• resolution, result, problem, fixed, conflict...

Which text feature would be the most useful to organize information in chronological order?

• photograph

• time line

• pie graph

• bar graph

The author puts a photograph next to a specific paragraph because.....

• there was room

• to separate ideas

• to give a visual of what that paragraph describes

The title can tell you....

• what the selection is mostly about

• the setting

• the problem

Text that is meant to explain or inform the reader about a topic.

• fiction

• non-fiction