Text Structures

What text structure has steps to follow?

• Description
• Sequence
• Problem/Solution
• Cause/Effect

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-2

NGSS.HS-PS3-3

What text structure tells how something makes something else happen?

• Sequence
• Cause/Effect
• Problem/Solution
• Description

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-2

NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS4-2

NGSS.HS-PS1-5

Some dogs and cats do not have homes. People started animal shelters to take care of these animals and solve the problem of homeless animals. At the shelters, dogs and cats get food and water. They get to play with other dogs and cats. Sometimes, people bring a lost animal to the shelter. Some of these dogs and cats get a new home! People come to animal shelters to get a new pet. what type of text structure is this?

• cause and effect
• description
• problem and solution
• compare and contrast

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem. what is the problem?

• Description
• chimpanzees
• chimpanzees are disappearing 
• Sequential

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

One problem to resolve in crocodile watching is transportation. How can an observer get close enough to watch without scaring it away or being attacked? which text structure is this?

• directions
• problem and solution 
• cause and effect
• description and list

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Others, too, are hungry, including bands of timber wolves, which sometimes follow the musk oxen. In spring, when the calves are born, the wolves become particularly menacing. The musk oxen form a defensive ring, with calves and young animals in the middle. Even a dozen wolves attacking together stand little chance against the circle of lowered heads and sturdy horns. what is the problem?

• directions
• wolves are bad
• there is no order
• the wolves and other animals are hungry

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Titles of books need

• underlined
• quotation marks
• all of these
• nothing

Titles of plays need

• all of these
• quotation marks
• underlined
• nothing

Titles of songs need

• nothing
• underlined
• all of these
• quotation marks

Titles of magazine articles need

• nothing
• quotation marks
• all of these
• underlined