Text Structures and Their Features

The video tutorial explains various text structures used by authors to convey ideas. It covers chronological texts, which present events in sequence, problem and solution texts that describe issues and their resolutions, descriptive texts that provide detailed information about a concept, compare and contrast texts that highlight similarities and differences, and cause and effect texts that show how one event leads to another. Each structure is illustrated with examples to help understand their unique characteristics.

What type of text structure is used when events are presented in the order they occurred?

• Descriptive

• Compare and Contrast

• Chronological

• Problem and Solution

Which text structure is likely to use words like 'first', 'second', and 'third'?

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Descriptive

• Chronological

Which of the following is a key feature of problem and solution texts?

• They present a problem and suggest ways to solve it.

• They compare two different subjects.

• They provide detailed descriptions of a single topic.

• They describe events in a sequence.

What is the main purpose of a descriptive text?

• To list events in chronological order.

• To present a problem and its solution.

• To provide detailed information about a specific topic.

• To show how one event leads to another.

In which type of text would you find a detailed description of rabbits, including their size and diet?

• Chronological

• Problem and Solution

• Descriptive

• Cause and Effect

Which text structure would you use to highlight the differences between two fruits?

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Chronological

What is a common feature of cause and effect texts?

• They compare two different subjects.

• They often follow a chronological order.

• They describe a single topic in detail.

• They present a problem and a solution.