Text Structure Quiz

"The beloved children's writer, Shel Silverstein is well known for his three books of children's poems. The first book, Where the Sidewalk Ends was first published in 1974. The second book, A Light in the Attic, came out seven years later in 1981. The final book, Falling Up, was published in 1996."

What is the text structure?

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

Moths and butterflies often look similar. Both have large wings and long, thin bodies, and both start their lives as caterpillars. However, butterflies usually have brighter colors on their wings than moths. Also, butterflies are most active during the day, while moths are generally creatures of the night.

What is the text structure?

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Sequence

• Cause and Effect

Moths and butterflies often look similar. Both have large wings and long, thin bodies, and both start their lives as caterpillars. However, butterflies usually have brighter colors on their wings than moths. Also, butterflies are most active during the day, while moths are generally creatures of the night.

What words signal the author's organizational pattern?

• Moths, butterflies

• long, thin

• creatures

• Both, similar, however, while

Some of the students in room 52 were upset because they never got to use the balls and jump ropes at recess. Another group of kids always got them first and they refused to share. When Mrs. Kelly found out what was going on, she developed a rotation system so that everyone would have a chance to use the equipment.

What is the text structure?

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Sequence

When farmers use fertilizer to fertilize their crops, the left over fertilizer can run into nearby ponds, streams and rivers. The result is that the nutrient-rich fertilizer causes way too much algae to grow. All that algae is bad for the plants and animals that live there.

What words signal the author's organizational pattern?

• When, the, all

• Fertilizer, crops, algae

• Use, run, grow

• Result, causes

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

When farmers use fertilizer to fertilize their crops, the left over fertilizer can run into nearby ponds, streams and rivers. The result is that the nutrient-rich fertilizer causes way too much algae to grow. All that algae is bad for the plants and animals that live there.



What is the text structure?

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Sequence

Next time you are thirsty, try drinking a glass of water instead of a soda. Although both will quench your thirst, soda is full of sugar and chemicals. Water, on the other hand, is a much healthier choice. Water helps your digestive system to function properly and keeps you immune system strong so you won't get sick.

What words signal the author's organizational pattern?

• Quench, helps, keeps

• Water, soda

• glass, full, strong

• Instead, although, on the other hand

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

What does underlying principle mean?

• The main idea of the story.

• The background of the story.

• Underneath or the reason behind something.

• The way a text is structured.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

What was the underlying principle of "The Guilty Party?"

• Men were more powerful than women.

• Dances end in tragedy.

• Women were viewed as less than, which made it socially acceptable for a man to neglect a woman and treat her as such.

• Love always win.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

How does the author use genre, text structure and PIE to create meaning.

• By constantly restating how they feel in a text.

• By using flashbacks.

• By delivering information in a way to help readers easily understand the central idea of a text.

• By carefully stating factual details from the text

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5