the author states an issue or concern and lists one or more possible options to deal with it
What is problem and solution text structure?
100
one tells something that can be proven the other tells ideas or feelings.
What is fact and opinion text structure?
100
Information or facts from the author's words used to support an analysis of a text.
What is textual evidence?
100
Facts provided or learned about something or someone.
What is information?
100
What the text is about.
What is a topic?
200
the author explains a topic, person, place, or thing by listing characteristics, examples, or features
What is description (descriptive) text structure?
200
When a text organizes the information with a description from top to bottom, left to right, or around.
What is spatial text structure?
200
Information clearly stated in a reading or when the author tells the reader something directly.
What is explicit evidence?
200
A piece of information used as evidence or as part of a report.
What are facts?
200
It is the overall focus that the author wants you to know about the topic.
What is the main idea?
300
the author lists the order of steps, describes the items or events in chronological order, or explains how to do something with very specific arrangement of steps
What are sequence, chronological order, & order of importance text structures?
300
a text that focuses on explaining the inquiry mentioned.
What is question and answer text structure?
300
A work known to be reliable because its authority or authenticity is widely recognized by experts in the field.
What is authoritative source?
300
The facts, statements, examples, or specifics which guide us to a full understanding of the main idea.
What are the supporting details?
300
A brief restatement of the main idea and the most important supporting details from a text.
What is a summary?
400
the author lists one or more events and the results
What is cause and effect text structure?
400
provides a personal, but still factually complete and correct, understanding of a particular idea or term.
What is concept and definition text structure?
400
Artifacts, documents, diaries, manuscripts, autobiographies, recordings, or information that were created at the time under study.
What are primary sources?
400
A particular attitude toward or way of regarding something.
What is a perspective?
400
To say that something is true or is a fact.
What is a claim?
500
the author explains how two or more things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast text structure?
500
Uses logic, reason, and supporting data to argue that one idea is more legitimate than another.
What is proposition and support text structure?
500
Scholarly books, articles,or information that was created later by someone who did not experience first-hand or participate in the events or conditions of the topic.
What are secondary sources?
500
A statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.
What is a thesis?
500
Combine (a number of things: background knowledge or text contents) into a coherent whole.