Text Structures
This text structure is built around identifying some issue and explaining how that issue was resolved.
What is Problem-Solution?
What is Area?
This prefix means back or again.
What is "re-"?
The heroine or hero of a novel.
What is the protagonist?
This type of informational text gives us details about something in our world and how it works or why it works the way it does.
What is scientific text?
This structure is made up of verses, and is sometimes considered poetry's version of a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
This Science term is used to describe the educated guess a scientist makes about something she or he has observed or researched.
What is a hypothesis?
This prefix means with or together.
What is "co-"?
This type of literature often uses rhyme, rhythm, and meter to make its figurative language interesting.
What is poetry?
This type of text creates a record of our past. Some examples include personal journals, newspapers, maps, and transcripts of speeches.
What is historical text?
This part of a drama tells the actors what to say (a.k.a. the actors' lines).
What is dialogue?
In social studies we learned that our National and State legislatures are both divided into two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate. We refer to these two-body law-making structures as _________ legislatures.
What is bicameral?
What is "-er, -or"?
In this type of literature, we learn about humanity through a super-human protagonist who faces a series of (usually three) challenges through which we are taught a moral.
What is a myth?
This type of text breaks down the steps to accomplish a task, such as repairing a vehicle, learning how to march in the military, or how to cook something.
What is technical text?
This text structure looks at two or more things and analyzes how they are the same and/or different.
What is Compare/Contrast?
This Math term is part of a fraction, and tells us how many equal parts the whole is broken into.
What is the denominator?
This prefix means wrongly or not.
What is "mis-"?
This type of narrative is based on real events from our past, but the character or characters are made up. It blends reality with a writer's creativity to help us understand how the past might have been.
What is historical fiction?
This is the big idea of informational text.
What is the main idea?
This text structure refers to the words an author uses to tell a story; it is used to refer to narratives laid out in regular sentence-paragraph format, and uses traditional quotations to identify when a character is speaking or thinking.
What is prose?
This is information taken from one or more texts and used to support a writer's controlling idea when she or he is writing an essay.
What is evidence?
This suffix means the act, state, or result of an action.
What is "-ment?"
This type of literature is used by directors and actors on stage and in film to create a story an audience can watch.
What is a drama?
Informational text can be written in these four different structures.
What are Cause and Effect, Compare/Contrast, Chronology (Sequence of Events), or Problem-Solution.