Organizational Text Structures

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What is the organizational text structure Cause and Effect?

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Why something happened and the result of it happening.

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What is the organizational text structure Sequential Order?

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describes the order or tells the steps to follow to do something or make something

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What is the organizational text structure Description?

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describes a topic, idea, person, place, or thing by listing its features, characteristics, or examples

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What is the organizational text structure Compare & Contrast?

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shows how two or more things are alike and/or different

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Organizational text structure: Chronological Order

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Time order in which events occur

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What is the organizational text structure Main Idea and Details?

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key concept and information that supports the concept

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What questions does the organizational text structure Cause and Effect answer?

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Why did something happen? What were the results of it happening?

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What questions does the organizational text structure Sequential Order answer?

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What steps are listed? Do the steps have to happen in a particular order?

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What questions does the organizational text structure Description answer?

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What is being described? What does it look like? How is it being described?

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What questions does the organizational text structure Compare & Contrast answer?

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How are the two things alike? How are they different? What do they have in common?