Sign Posts
Will help you make comparisons, draw conclusions, make inferences or generalizations, differentiate fact and opinion, identify details, recognize evidence, and understand the author's purpose or bias.
Numbers and Stats
This text structure gives the who, what, where, when, and why about a topic.
Description
Usually headed simply Contents and abbreviated informally as TOC, is a list, usually found on a page before the start of a written work, of its chapter or section titles or brief descriptions with their commencing page numbers.
Table of Content
Makes an exaggerated, overblown, and possibly untrue claim. It admits of not exceptions, and it seems to forbid doubt or questions.
Extreme and Absolute Language
This structure is when steps, directions, or ordered events are layed out.
Sequence
Is a word, phrase, or sentence at the beginning of a written passage that explains what it's about.
Headings
They provide insight about how an author is trying to reform readers about a topic.
Quoted Words
A text structure that presents similarities and differences about two or more things/concepts/ideas.
Compare and Contrast
a title or brief explanation appended to an article, illustration, cartoon, or poster.
Captions
When the author author uses words or phrases students recognize they don't know.
Word Gaps
This text structure demonstrates how actions or events can bring about other actions, events, or results (think the domino effect).
Cause and Effect
Located at the back of the book, an alphabetical listing of text-important words with definitions and sometimes a pronunciation guide; usually, the words in the glossary are bolded in the main body of the text
Glossary
Alerts readers to opposing views. That opposition might be seen within the text, especially if it is an argumentative essay, or it might be seen between the reader and the text, especially in historical texts.
Contrasts and Contradictions
This text structure is, a challenge or issue is presented along with one or more ways to fix or address it.
Problem and Solution
an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc., with references to the places where they occur, typically found at the end of a book.
Index