Text Structure
This provides details about a person, thing, event, or process.
Description
What is the main idea?
most important point in a passage.
This is when the writer describes characteristics, analyzes parts, gives examples or states functions.
Definition
This shows order, reveals a series of events over time, or steps in a procedure.
Sequence
This is a short restatement of the main idea and the most important details in a passage.
Summary
This is when the writer asserts an argument or a position and supports it with evidence.
Claim and Support
This explains the reasons why something happens and/or what happened as a result.
Cause and Effect
This is evidence you use from what you have read to support your answers, inferences, and claims.
Text Evidence
This is when the writer describes something that happened and tells why it happened.
Cause and Effect
This presents a problem and describes how it is solved.
Problem and Solution
This is being able to infer something based on evidence in a paragraph.
Inference
This is when the writer organizes things or processes by category or group.
Classification
Explains how two or more persons, animals, things, or events are alike and different.
Comparison and Contrast
This compares two or more things in order to clarify or explain something. Answers the question What other thing is it like or related to?
Analogy
This is when the writer describes how something progresses over time.
Process