Text Structures
This text structure describes or explains a topic, idea, person, place, or thing to give the reader a mental picture.
What is description?
This is using the beginning, middle, and end to tell a shorter version of what is being read.
What is a summary?
This is a reading strategy to help you figure out the meaning of words in a story.
What is context clues?
How many states are in the United States?
50 states
The dingy curtains looked bright and clean after Molly washed them.
Dark and dull
This text structure tells why something happened and what happened.
What is cause and effect?
This is what the text is mostly about.
What is main idea?
This is the lesson learned in the story.
What is theme?
What year did the United States become a country?
1776
My best friend is very candid, always honestly sharing her opinions with me.
This text structure examines the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, and ideas.
What is compare and contrast?
This is written by a person who was at an event or experienced something.
What is firsthand account?
These describe a character and how they are and act.
What are character traits?
How many stars are on the United States Flag?
50 stars
I told my friend Troy that I would barter with him and give him my toy cars for his baseball cards, but he didn’t want to trade.
To trade
This text structure describes items or events in order, or explains the steps to follow.
What is sequence/chronology?
This is using your background knowledge and text evidence to come to a conclusion.
What is inference?
This is is written in lines and stanzas, Many rhyme, have repetition-- some words or lines repeat within the stanzas, are written to entertain or express emotion
What is poetry?
Who was the 16th president?
President Abraham Lincoln
The shrill sound of the ambulance siren woke me up this morning.
high pitched, piercing, loud
This text structure sets up a problem or problems, explains the solution, and then discusses the effects of the solution.
What is problem and solution?
This is written by a person who was not there but has learned about an event or time period.
What is secondhand account?
This has cast of characters, dialogue & lines, and stage directions.
What is a drama?
What number president is President Biden?
46th President
Mom had to settle a dispute between my brother and me. The quarrel started when we couldn’t decide what show to watch on television.
Disagreement or argument