Text Structure Review

1. What does text structure mean?

• the type of book you are reading
• fiction or nonfiction
• the way an author organizes their writing
• charts and graphs

2. Which below shows the problem and solution text structure?

• describing the meal you ate for dinner

• sharing the events of your day

• comparing kindergarten to fourth grade

• telling about wildfires and ways to stop them

If a text is written with trouble happening in the story, but the trouble gets solved. What type of text structure is that?

• cause and effect
• problem and solution
• sequence
• description

If a text written in order from beginning to end. What type of text structure is used?

• cause and effect
• problem and solution
• sequence
• description

Every morning, I wake up at about 7:00 AM. The first thing I do is make my bed and pick out the clothes I’m going to wear. Then, I brush my teeth and take a shower. After my shower, I dry my hair and get dressed.

• cause and effect
• problem and solution
• sequence- events are in order
• description

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.

• cause and effect
• problem and solution
• sequence
• description

Did you know that not all deserts are hot? Both hot and cold deserts are very dry, but unlike hot deserts, cold deserts have long winters when the temperatures can reach below freezing. Cold deserts also get a great deal of snow, which is certainly not true for hot deserts.

• compare and contrast
• problem and solution
• desciption
• sequence

Which text structure might use words like SIMILAR, DIFFERENT, BOTH, COMMON, SHARE, UNLIKE

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

A summary is what the passage or story is mostly about

• True
• False

A good summary includes the which main events in the story?

• Main events in the beginning of the story
• Main events in the middle of the story
• Main events in the end of the story
• Main events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of the story