Name That Text Structure
Events are in a fixed order.
What is chronological order?
What are some signal words?
What is first, after, then finally...?
To compare means to find things that are ______
What is the same?
The cause is ____
To solve something.
What is a solution?
What is compare and contrast?
Put into order:
Getting a band aid, falling down, scraping your knee
What is falling down, scraping your knee, getting a band aid?
To contrast means to find things that are______
What is different?
The effect is _____
What is the result?
Something that is troubling.
What is a problem?
The sun stopped shining on my garden. Therefore all of my plants died.
What text structure is this?
What is cause and effect?
This tool uses a straight line and dates to show the order of historical events.
What is a time line?
Similarity between a dolphin and shark?
Answers may vary
The sidewalk was slippery because it froze overnight.
What is the cause?
What is the sidewalk froze?
Maya’s bicycle chain kept slipping off the gears. To resolve this, her dad tightened the chain with a wrench.
What is the problem?
What is the bicycle chain kept slipping off?
I burned my finger on the stove because it was hot. To cool the burn I put my finger in a bowl of ice.
What text structure is this?
What is problem and solution?
First, the water froze. Later, the sun came out and melted the ice.
What happened last?
What is the ice melted?
This graphic organizer uses two overlapping circles to show how things are alike and different.
What is a Venn diagram?
When the sun beats down on the ocean, it heats up the liquid water. This heat causes the water to turn into an invisible gas called water vapor, which rises into the sky.
What causes the water to turn into water vapor?
What is the sun heating up the liquid water?
Unlike Cause and Effect, a Problem and Solution text structure always includes one of these to show how the trouble was taken care of.
What is a solution / a fix?
My dog is afraid of loud noises and fireworks make him run away. To help him be less afraid we bought him headphones to wear during the 4th of July.
What text structure is this?
What is cause and effect and problem and solution?
This is the root word in "chronological," which comes from the Greek word for "time."
What is chrono?
When using a Venn Diagram, you write the things that are different in these sections.
What is the outside circles?
On a graphic organizer, an arrow usually points away from the cause and points directly toward this.
What is the effect?
In a standard graphic organizer for this structure, you write what is wrong in the first box, and draw an arrow pointing to this in the second box.
What is the solution?