Test Prep!

"It used to be that students through fifth grade could carry cellphones only with special permission. But over the years, an increasing number of parents wanted their elementary-age children to take phones to school. They often believe kids will be safer — walking home or in an emergency — with the device at the ready" (George 5).

What text structure is this?

• Description and List

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

_________ is used to show similarities and differences between two things

• Description

• Problem & Solution

• Compare & Contrast

• Text Structure

What is a text structure?

• The way writers choose to organize their ideas in their writing

• What the whole story is about

• The beginning, middle, and end of a story.

__________ explains how one event leads to another.

• Description

• Compare & Contrast

• Chronological

• Cause & Effect

What is Problem & Solution when talking about non-fiction texts?

• The way writers choose to organize their ideas in their writing

• Used to show similarities and differences between two things

• Explains the order in which events happened

• An author explains a problem and then shows one or more solutions

Which text structure tells about how things are similar and different?

• Chronological

• Compare & Contrast

• Problem & Solution

• Description

Which text structure explains how things happen in time order?

• Cause & Effect

• Compare & Contrast

• Chronological Order

• Problem/Solution

The TIME and LOCATION that a story takes place is its what?

• Characters

• Resolution

• Setting

• Climax

A related SERIES of EVENTS that BUILD TOWARD the point of greatest interest or THE CLIMAX.

Ask: What events make the conflict WORSE?

• Falling Action

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

TURNING POINT in a story; the conflict or tension hits the HIGHEST point. The most SUSPENSEFUL part.

After this, everything begins to change.

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Climax

• Conflict