Text Structures
This text structure explains a problem and how it is fixed.
What is problem and solution?
This central idea would fit a passage about students lining up, unpacking backpacks, and starting morning work.
What is “Students follow a routine to start the school day”?
This graphic feature organizes information into rows and columns.
What is a chart or table?
Which word is the adjective:
Many students helped clean the playground after lunch.
What is many?
The first step in Prove It is to do this.
What is read the question?
This structure uses words like first, next, then, and finally.
What is sequence?
This central idea would fit a paragraph describing a clean library, quiet tables, and shelves full of books.
What is “The school library is a quiet and welcoming place”?
This graphic feature shows information using words at the top of a section.
What is a heading?
Which word is the adjective: Several flowers grew in the school garden.
What is several?
This Prove It question type means you do NOT need the text.
What is Answer Now?
This structure explains why something happens and what happens because of it.
What is cause and effect?
This central idea would fit a passage explaining how students recycle, clean up trash, and protect animals.
What is “Students help keep their school clean and safe”?
This graphic feature helps readers learn words from the nonfiction text.
What is a glossary?
Which word is the adjective: The clean cafeteria smelled fresh.
This Prove It step helps you locate evidence in the text.
What is Find & Compare?
This structure tells how two things are the same and different.
What is compare and contrast?
This central idea would fit a paragraph comparing students who walk to school and students who ride the bus.
What is “Students get to school in different ways”?
The reason authors include graphic features in informational texts.
What is to help readers understand information better?
Which word is the adjective: A quiet library helps students focus.
What is quiet?
This type of question usually asks for the central idea.
What is Reread?
This structure gives details to help the reader picture a topic without explaining steps or solutions.
What is description?
This central idea would fit a passage explaining problems at school and how students worked together to fix them.
What is “Students work together to solve problems at school”?
This graphic feature tells what page number a topic is on in a nonfiction text.
What is the Table of Contents?
Which word is the adjective: The helpful students worked together to solve the problem.
What is helpful?
This is what you must use to prove your answer is correct.
What is evidence from the text?