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Text Structures

What is a text structure?

• “Text structure”
refers to how a
piece of text or
writing is built or
put together.
Authors…
• Structure their work
differently for
different types of
texts.

• For example, authors


of fiction use a
different text
structure than an
author of non-fiction.
Non-Fiction
Different Structures for
Different Purposes
1. Chronology
2. Compare/Contrast
3. Cause and Effect
4. Description/Categorization
5. Problem/Solution
6. Position/Reason
Text Structure Review:
Lesson 1

Objective:
REVIEW 3 TEXT STRUCTURES and
ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS FOR
Chronology/Sequential Order
Compare/Contrast
Cause and Effect
Chronological/Sequential
Order
• Purpose:
– Nonfiction: to inform
– Fiction: to entertain
• To show events in the
order in which they
occurred or to show
steps in a process.
• Chronological: events
• Sequential: steps or
process
Chronological Order
Keywords
• first, next, later,
then, and finally –
can you think of
any more?

• Even dates or
time periods in
history give a
sense of time.
CHRONOLOGY/SEQUENCE/
ORDER – TIMELINE
OR A CYCLE/PROCESS
Can you think of cycle or process?
For Example…
Compare/Contrast

• Comparisons –
• Suppose an author
wanted to explain show how things
how these two faces are alike
are similar and
different.
• Contrast – shows
• The author would how things are
need to use different
compare and
contrast.
COMPARE/CONTRAST
Venn diagrams allow you to all the information in one place.
For Example…
Cause/Effect Text
• Purpose: to
Structure
Cause/Effect
explain how and Keywords
why things cause, effect, as
happen. a result,
• How one event consequently,
leads to another and so.
• Why decisions
are made.
Organizing Cause/Effect

You may have one or more causes that create on huge effect
which may in turn create one or more other effects as well.
For Example…
How could your organize the
cause and effects of flooding?
• Draw your own causal chain using the
information from the passage?
• Let’s go back to the passage.
Text structures we’ve
learned so far

• Chronological Order
• Compare and
Contrast
• Cause and Effect
Match the clue words!
Can you identify the text structure that these clue words
indicate?

on the other hand Compare/Contrast


similarity

as a result Cause/Effect
after that Chronological Order

Uncover the answers to see if you are right!


Problem/Solution Text Structure

• Purpose:
to explain a
problem, and
then offer one or
more solutions.
Problem/Solution
Keywords
Synonyms for problem:
difficulty, struggle, uncertainty,
worry, threat, and trouble
Synonyms for solution:
possibility, hope, bright spot, answer,
and future
Organizing Problem Solution
Another way…
Problem Solution
For Example…
Position/Reason
• Author’s Purpose:
to persuade/influence
• Gives reasons why an idea
or point should or should
not be supported.

• Article states someone’s


position and gives reasons
why they do or do not
support something.
Organizing Position/Reason
What in this passage is a fact and what is an
opinion? What argument is being made?
Sort out the Facts from the
Opinions.
Facts Opinions
Last One…
Description/Categorization
•IF the author wants you to know or describe how
something looks, moves, works, etc he or she
may use this type of text structure.

•Also used to show which things can be organized


into LIKE categories or groups based on some
identifying characteristic.
Last One…
Description/Categorization
• Texts organized using this structure will list
various types of things and their
characteristics which set them apart from
other things that have similar qualities.

Organizational charts used to help sort out


texts with a lot of information can be webs,
venn diagrams and descriptive matrixes.
Text Structures
All Done!!!

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