Text Structures
How many text structures are there?
Five
Uses: adjectives, for example, for instance, specifically. What text structure uses these key words.
Descriptive
When it gets cold, I shiver. Shiver means to?
Shake
True or false: The top number of a fraction is called the denominator.
False
What is main idea?
Main idea is what the story is mostly about.
True or False: Compare & contrast is when the author tries to show characteristics or details about something.
False
Uses: so because of, solve, issue, due to, lead to problem. What text structure uses these key words.
Problem and solution
I was in agony after I dropped the brick on my foot. Agony means?
Pain
Is the denominator the top or bottom number of a fraction?
Bottom
What is theme?
Theme is the message or lesson of the story.
True or False: Sequential order is when the author tries to lay out a list of steps or the chronological order of events.
True
Uses: similar, alike, different than, both, on the other hand. What text structure uses these key words.
Compare and contrast
The value of the coins was 32 cents. Value means?
Amount
Write the fraction three-sixteenths.
3/16
What is 6 times 9?
54
When the author tries to describe an event and the effects that followed after. What text structure?
Cause and effect
Uses: if/then, because, due to, as a result, since. What text structure uses these key words.
Cause and effect
The vacant house had nobody living in it. Vacant means?
Empty
True of false: The fraction one-half is equivalent to the fraction two-fourths.
True
What is 72 divided by 8?
9
When the author tries to show a problem and at least one solution for it. What text structure?
Problem and solution
Uses: first, second, after that, then, finally, lastly. What text structure uses these key words.
Sequential order
The artificial grass looked real. Artificial means?
Fake
Compare the fractions seven-twelfths and six-tenths. Which fraction is greater?
50 divided by 5 equals 10. Which number is the quotient?
10