Nonfiction Text Structures

This type of nonfiction writing tells what happened and why it happened

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• Cause and effect

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This type of nonfiction writing present a delemma and something to fix it

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• Cause and effect

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• Sequencing/ Chronological

This type of nonfiction writing show similarities and differences between two or more things

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This type of nonfiction writing explains the steps in a process to make or do something

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• Cause and effect

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This type of nonfiction writing describe events in the order in which they took place

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This type of nonfiction writing provide information or characteristics about a topic

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This type of nonfiction writing uses these key words:

for instance, for example, in additon, in fact, characteristics, most importantly

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This type of nonfiction writing uses these key words:

first, second, next, then, before, after, finally

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This type of nonfiction writing uses these key words:

however, on the other hand, similarly, although, like, unlike compared with, as opposed to

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This type of nonfiction writing uses these key words:

Problem, delimma, solution, resolution, issue, on answer

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• Sequencing/ Chronological