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Guess The Text Structure From The Passage
Guess The Text Structure From The Passage ~ Long/Difficult
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Name the five main text structures.
What are: comparing & contrast, descriptive, sequence, problem & solution, and cause and effect?
100
This text structure gives readers a chronological of events or a list of steps in a procedure.
What is order/sequence?
100

The overall subject of a paragraph is called

What is a topic?

100
Chimpanzees and humans are alike in many ways. A baby chimp laughs when its mother tickles it. After chimpanzees fight, they kiss and make up. When one chimpanzee comforts another, it gives it a hug or pat on the back. There are, of course, many ways that chimpanzees and humans are different. Chimpanzees are smaller and stronger than humans. An adult male chimpanzee stands three or four feet tall and weighs about 100 pounds. But a chimpanzee can lift more weight than a man who is six feet tall.
What is comparison and contrast?
100

All crocodilians are reptiles with long snouts, long tails, four short legs, tough skin, and sharp teeth. Members of the crocodilian family include alligators, crocodiles, caimans, and gavials. Crocodilians live in warm weather throughout the year and they spend part of their time in the water and part of their time on land. Almost all crocodilians grow to be very large, with the largest more than twenty feet long. There are two kinds of alligators, 14 kinds of crocodiles, eight kinds of caimans, and one kind of gavial.

What is description?

200
One text structure has another name. State the two text structures that are more alike and then state what's makes them different.
What are chronological order and sequence? Chronological order - the arrangement of how events occurred. Sequence - most likely a step by step procedure.
200
This type of structure sets up a problem or problems, explains the solution, and then discusses the effects of the solution.
What is problem and solution?
200

Specific information about the main idea is called

What are supporting details?

200
It is fun to read about chimpanzees. All wild chimpanzees live in Africa. They live mostly in thick rain forests and in woodlands. There are two types, or species, of chimpanzees—the common chimpanzee and the bonobo, also known as the pygmy chimpanzee.
What is description?
200

On the river banks of the Nile River, home to some crocodiles, there are many kinds of birds, sometimes called crocodile birds because they are always hopping around crocodiles. The big crocodiles and the birds are useful to each other for several reasons. The birds eat flies and leeches that they find on the crocodiles’ skin and mouths. In this way, the birds get a good meal and the crocodiles get rid of the leeches and flies. Sometimes an enemy frightens the birds who scream and fly away. As a result of the noise, the birds give the crocodiles a warning of danger.

What is cause and effect?

300
As you know cause and effect is a type of text structure; please state the cause(s) and the effect in the following statement. After their divorce, my parents began to act more appreciative of each other. They argued a lot prior to the split, but now it's all over.
Cause - their divorce Effect - they began to act more appreciative of each other.
300
This structure presents the causal relationship between an specific event, idea, or concept and the events, ideas, or concept that follow.
What is cause and effect?
300

A statement that tells the author's overall point or message

What is the main idea?

300
A chimpanzee’s body is made for climbing and swinging in the trees. First, it uses its long arms to reach a branch. Next, with its flexible hands and feet, it grabs and hooks on to the branch. Finally, it swings from that branch to another branch of tree.
What is order/sequence?
300

In most parts of the world there are not as many crocodiles as there used to be. This is a problem because crocodiles are becoming endangered and also crocodile are necessary to the balance of nature. Many crocodiles have died because people dried up the swamps and marshes where the crocodiles live. Poachers have also contributed to the dilemma as crocodiles have been desired for their strong, smooth, leathery skins. In order to preserve these mighty creatures, people must take care of the crocodiles’ environment and help put a stop to the needless shooting of these animals.

What is problem and solution?

400
This type of text structure features an explanation of something to give the reader a mental picture.
What is description?
400

These questions are asked when looking for supporting details.

What are: Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How?

400
Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem.
What is problem and solution?
400

Alligators and crocodiles, along with their relatives the caimans and the gavials, are very much alike. These crocodilians are reptiles with long snouts, long tails, four short legs, tough skin, and sharp teeth. There are some differences, however. Gavials have the longest snout and the most teeth. Some people say that alligators and crocodiles differ in the shape of their snouts and the positioning of their teeth. Zookeepers say that crocodiles move faster than alligators and have nastier dispositions.

What is compare and contrast?

500
This type of text examines the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, concepts, ideas, etc.
What is comparison and contrast?
500

These are methods for finding the topic/main idea.

What are: using boldfaced headings, looking and the first and last sentences of a paragraph, and finding repeating words?

500
Chimps live in groups and like each other a lot, but sometimes they fight. Because they don’t want to stay angry at each other after a fight, they make up by holding a hand out to the other and kissing. They show they are sorry with pats and hugs. Then the anger goes away.
What is cause and effect?