Text
Structure
Structure
This text structure analyzes the ways a topic is similar and different.
What is compare and contrast?
Author's purpose is as easy as this bakery item.
PIE
A book that is completely true and written by the author about the author's life?
Autobiography
Elephant And Piggie
Fiction
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Biography NON-Fiction
This text structure focuses on order of steps to complete a process. Ex: first, second, third, finally.
What is sequence?
This author's purpose is trying to give you information and teach you facts.
What is inform?
A book that is completely true, but written by someone who the book is not about. Instead that author focuses on another person.
biography
The Lord Of the Rings
Fantasy FICTION
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Realistic Fiction
This text structure analyzes issues and seeks ways to fix them.
What is problem and solution?
This author's purpose is trying to make you enjoy the story by keeping the reader's attention.
What is entertain?
This type of informational text explains a process or provides facts in a way that is educational and purposeful.
What is an expository text?
Reaching For the Moon by Buzz Aldrin
Autobiography NON-FICTION
Eye Witness Books
Expository NON-Fiction
This text structure focuses on time order of events.
What is chronological?
The purpose of Dr. Jane Goodall's memoir.
What is inform?
Descriptive, Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Chronological, Sequence.
What are types of informational text structures or paragraphs?
Who Is? What Is? series
Informational NON-FICTION
The Collected Work of Robert Frost
Poetry - Fiction
This text structure analyzes the reasons for something happening and the impact it had.
What is cause and effect?
This author's purpose is trying to get you to do or try something.
What is persuade?
Literary nonfiction, expository, argumentative, and persuasive texts.
What are the 4 major categories or types of informational texts?
I Survived Series
Historical FICTION
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Science Fiction