Text Structures
What Scientists Do
Make It Easy to Understand
Make It Easy to Find
Write About Your Reading
100
Tell how a problem is solved.
What is Problem and Solution?
100
Use your senses to look at something carefully.
What is observe?
100
A picture taken by a camera.
What is a photograph?
100
Words written or typed in different ways to help you know what is important.
What is Types of Print
100
Tell all about it. Write a picture with words.
What is describe?
200
Tell about something using details.
What is a description?
200
Write about what you think.
What is think aloud?
200
The words that tell about the photograph.
What is a caption?
200
A dictionary in a nonfiction book.
What is a glossary?
200
Tell about it. Get to the point quickly.
What is summarize?
300
Tell what happened in order using first, next, then, finally, before, after.
What is Sequence?
300
Think about what the reading reminds you of.
What is Making Connections?
300
An organizer that shows the events that happened in chronological order.
What is a timeline?
300
Where you would look to find out which part of the book you want to read.
What is a Table of Contents?
300
Think about what is important. Tell what it is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
400
Tell how things are alike and different.
What is Compare and Contrast?
400
Think about what you are wondering about.
What is Ask Questions?
400
A picture that shows a part of a photograph so you can see what it looks like when you are near it.
What is close-up?
400
Where you would look if you had to find out information about one thing.
What is an index?
400
Tell about what the author is trying to say.
What is Author's Purpose?
500
Tell how something caused something to happen.
What is Cause and Effect?
500
Think about what might happen next and why.
What is Predict?
500
An organizer that has rows and columns to help organize information.
What is a chart?
500
A book with lots of maps to show information about many places around the world.
What is an atlas?
500
Tell what you think because of what you know. What did the author "Show But Not Tell"?
What is infer?