Text Structure 1
Let's take a look at apples and oranges.
What is compare and contrast?
A chart used to see if the info fits in.
What is graphic organizer?
DAILY DOUBLE: There is a weight on my shoulder.
What is a Metaphor?
An ________ shows an action, feeling, or process.
What is an Action Verb?
A teacher that is firm, fair, consistent, funny, knowledgeable and loves all of her students!
What is Mrs. Lockhart
How information in a passage is organized.
What is Text Structure?
Some people confuse this with cause and effect.
What is problem and solution?
Part of speech that informs about an action.
What is an Adverb?
A distinguishing quality or feature that someone or something has.
What is characteristic?
A _____ is a part of speech, which is used to identify a thing, person, idea, or place.
What is a Noun?
This text structure is made up of two words...Time & Order
What is Chronological or Sequence of Events?
This Text Structure does not occur at a specific time.
What is Sequence?
An __________ is a part of speech that describes and modifies a noun, to make a writing or conversation more specific, relevant, and coherent.
What is an Adjective?
The central idea in a story or text; what a text is mostly about.
What is the Main Idea?
DAILY DOUBLE: In the classroom, on the floor.
What is spatial/ descriptive writing?
When the students did not study the material.
They performed poorly on the test.
What is cause & effect?
DAILY DOUBLE: Time does not pass in these passages.
What is Spatial?
Writing that describes facts and real events; not fiction.
What is Non-fiction?
DAILY DOUBLE: This figure of speech features either like or as in making a comparison.
What is a Simile?
To give evidence.
What is support/proof?
There are six common patterns:
Chronological
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Problem and Solution
Sequence/ Process
Spatial/ Descriptive
It is presented as a PROBLEM.
What is problem and solution?
A type of nonfiction that teaches the reader about a topic related to the natural world or society.
What is informational text?
A particular way of considering a situation.
What is Point of View?
The topic being discussed, described, or analyzed.
What is Subject?