Understanding Text Structures Development of Ideas

What is the purpose of the structure of a nonfiction text?

• To entertain the reader

• To confuse the reader

• To help readers understand the text’s purpose and its most important ideas

• To provide fictional stories

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Which text structure presents information according to priority?

• Compare-and-Contrast

• Order of Importance

• Chronological

• Problem-Solution

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What does the Compare-and-Contrast text structure do?

• Presents information in order of time

• Explains the results of specific actions

• Discusses the similarities and differences of ideas

• Provides solutions to problems

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Which text structure explains the results of specific actions?

• Cause-and-Effect

• Chronological

• Order of Importance

• Problem-Solution

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What is the Chronological text structure used for?

• To present information according to priority

• To explain the results of specific actions

• To present information in order of time

• To provide solutions to problems

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Which text structure provides responses or solutions to problems?

• Order of Importance

• Compare-and-Contrast

• Cause-and-Effect

• Problem-Solution

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What is the organizational structure of the passage about a butterfly's lifecycle?

• Order of Importance

• Compare-and-Contrast

• Chronological

• Problem-Solution

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What is the organizational structure of the passage about traffic in downtown Center City?

• Order of Importance

• Compare-and-Contrast

• Cause-and-Effect

• Problem-Solution

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What is the organizational structure of the passage about the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art?

• Order of Importance

• Compare-and-Contrast

• Cause-and-Effect

• Chronological

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What is the organizational structure of the passage about the effects of a volcano eruption?

• Order of Importance

• Compare-and-Contrast

• Cause-and-Effect

• Problem-Solution

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