Text Structure 1
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 fact is a statement that can be verified. It can be proven to be true or false through objective evidence. An opinion is a statement that expresses a feeling, an attitude, a value judgment, or a belief. It is a statement that is neither true nor false. Or it may feel true for some, but false for others.
What is Compare & Contrast?
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?
First brown the hamburger, then boil your noodles. After your noodles are boiled, drain the noodles into the sink. Finally, put in your sauce and meat and stir until all mixed up.
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: The Chimpanzees are being endangered by poachers. There are many laws preventing poaching to occur
What is Problem & Solution?
When the students did not study the material.
They performed poorly on the test.
What is cause & effect?
DAILY DOUBLE: Putting things in order
What is Sequence?
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?
Replaces a noun
What is pronoun?
There are five common patterns:
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?
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
What is Description?
The topic being discussed, described, or analyzed.
What is Subject?
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 ________, or “_________,” shows an action, feeling, or process.
What is an Action Verb?
The student chose not to study for their test and got a bad grade.
What is a Cause & Effect?