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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
This type of evidence uses short stories to make a point.
What is an anecdote?
Headings, bold and italicized vocabulary, visuals, graphs, pictures, charts.
What are informational text features?
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?
This type of evidence uses information from a knowledgeable source.
What is an expert statement?
Magazines, scholarly journals, encyclopedias, newspapers, science/history textbooks.
What are examples of informational texts?
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 evidence provides facts in the form of numbers.
What are statistics?
This type of informational text explains a process or provides facts in a way that is educational and purposeful.
What is an expository text?
This text structure focuses on time order of events.
What is chronological?
The purpose of Dr. Jane Goodall's memoir.
What is inform?
This type of evidence provides statements that can be proven.
What are facts?
Descriptive, Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, Problem and Solution, Chronological, Sequence.
What are types of informational text structures?
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?
This type of evidence is based on a lived experience and relatable by a lot of people.
What are anecdotes?
Literary nonfiction, expository, argumentative, and persuasive texts.