Informational Organization
(Text Structure)
(Text Structure)
Authors use this text structure to help readers understand how a difficulty is addressed and may include clue words or phrases such "as obstacle", "as a response", "in order to", "one way to address", and "as a result."
What is Problem and Solution
Authors use this approach to entertain and guide readers through a character’s experiences and may focus on how events affect decisions, how conflicts shape actions, and how a situation changes over time, rather than directly stating a message.
What is Fiction
Authors include this text feature to help readers understand information that happens over time and may show key events, important dates, or how something developed.
What is a Timeline
Readers recognize this type of fiction by noticing that the story is written mostly as dialogue, relies on stage directions, and is meant to be performed rather than narrated.
What is Drama/Dramatic Fiction
According to the text, Amazing animal adaptations, animals survive in their environments because their physical and behavioral adaptations help them find food, avoid predators, and handle climate conditions.
What is Capitalize the Text Tittle
Authors use this text structure to help readers build a clear understanding of a topic by developing details and may include clue words or phrases such as "characteristics include", "is made up of", "one type is", "can be identified by", and "is typically found".
What is Description
Authors include this feature to help readers visualize relationships or processes that are difficult to understand from words alone and may clarify how parts connect, how something works, or how information is organized spatially.
Authors expect readers to identify this by determining what the text is mostly about across the entire passage, not by focusing on a single detail, example, or paragraph.
Readers identify this by determining the message about life or human behavior that develops through a character’s actions and experiences, not by naming a single event.
What is a Theme
In the text, Smoking and Your Health, the author shows that smoking increases the risk of lung cancer because harmful chemicals in tobacco damage lung tissues over time.
What is Change Tissues to Tissue
Authors use this text structure to help readers examine similarities and differences between ideas and may include clue words or phrases such as "in contrast", "share the trait", "differ in", "similarly", and "on the other hand".
What is Compare and Contrast
Authors use this organizational approach to make complex information easier to understand by grouping ideas logically, highlighting relationships, and helping readers track how details connect to the central idea.
What is Text Structure
Authors include this text feature to help readers understand location or movement and may show where something is, how it travels, or spatial relationships.
What is a Map
Readers determine this by identifying the main struggle that drives the story forward and forces characters to act, whether it involves a person, another character, society, or nature.
What is Conflict
In the text, Natural Disasters, the author explains by earthquakes cause widespread damage because the movement of tectonic plates releases powerful energy beneath Earth’s surface.
What is Change by to how
Authors use this text structure to help readers understand how events or processes unfold over time and may include clue words or phrases such as "at first", "over time", "during this stage", "eventually", and "by the end".
What is Sequence/Chronological
Authors use this approach to influence readers’ thinking by presenting reasons, evidence, and language designed to shape opinions or encourage agreement, even when opposing viewpoints are not directly stated.
What is Persuasive
Authors use this text feature to provide extra information that supports the main text and may include definitions, background details, or interesting facts without interrupting the main paragraph.
What is a Sidebar/Texbox
This is revealed by looking at how a character changes or what the reader can take away, a universal message, even when it is never stated directly.
In the text, Tech - Past, Present, & Future, the author shows how advances in communication technology have changed how people share information by increasing speed expanding access to audiences, and allowing communication across long distances.
What is Insert a Comma after "speed"
Authors use this text structure to help readers understand how actions lead to outcomes and may include clue words or phrases such as "as a consequence", "stemmed from", "triggered", "contributed to", and "brought about".
What is Cause and Effect
Authors use this approach to deepen readers’ understanding of a topic by explaining causes, effects, or processes, without telling a story or trying to convince the reader to take action.
What is informational
Readers determine this by asking what idea is supported by most of the information in the text, even when the author never states it directly.
What is the Central Idea (again!)
This is identified by analyzing how events are arranged in a story, including the introduction of the problem, rising action, climax, and resolution.
What is Plot
Plastic pollution harms marine ecosystems because it is mistaken for food by animals, causes entanglement that limits movement, and breaks down into microplastics that contaminate the food chain, all because fish mistake plastic for food.
What is Put a "." after "chain" and delete everything after it!