Text Structures Practice

What is the purpose of a cause and effect text structure?

• To provide a list of facts without any connections

• To entertain the reader with fictional stories

• To confuse the reader with unrelated information

• To show the relationship between events or actions and their outcomes.

How does the problem and solution text structure help the reader understand the main idea of a passage?

• It introduces characters and describes their personalities

• It provides a summary of the entire passage

• It presents a problem and then provides a solution or resolution to that problem.

• It includes a list of events in chronological order

Explain how the compare and contrast text structure helps in understanding the similarities and differences between two or more things.

• It presents the information in a random order without any structure.

• It focuses only on differences and ignores similarities.

• It organizes the information to highlight similarities and differences.

• It confuses the information by mixing up similarities and differences.

What are some signal words that indicate the use of a chronological text structure?

• apple, banana, orange, grape

• happy, sad, angry, excited

• first, next, then, finally, before, after, and later

• up, down, left, right

Describe how the description text structure helps in creating a mental image for the reader.

• Description text structure relies on complex mathematical equations to create a mental image

• Description text structure has no impact on creating a mental image for the reader

• Description text structure uses vivid language, sensory details, and figurative language to create a mental image for the reader.

• Description text structure uses random words and phrases to confuse the reader

Why is it important to identify the text structure when reading informational texts?

• To memorize every detail in the text

• To focus only on the vocabulary used in the text

• To ignore the organization of the information

• To understand the organization of the information and the relationships between ideas.

What is the structure of this paragraph?

• Problem and solution

• Cause and effect

• Compare and contrast

• Description

What is the structure of this paragraph?

• Compare and contrast

• Cause and effect

• Problem and solution

• Chronological

What is the structure of this paragraph?

• Description

• Chronological

• Problem and solution

• Compare and contrast

What is the structure of this paragraph?

• Chronological

• Description

• Cause and effect

• Comparison and Contrast