Transcription of Understanding Text Structures
1 Name: _____ Date: _____ 2014 Scholastic Inc. Teachers may make copies of this page to distribute to their Structures a race against time November/December 2014 Understanding Text StructuresDirections: Text structure is the way an author organizes information in a piece of writing. Authors use different text Structures to achieve different purposes. Common text Structures are listed in the boxes on the right. Use the information in these boxes to help you answer the questions below about a race against time . Cause and Effectexplains why something happened (cause) and what happened as a result (effect).
2 Descriptionincludes details to help you picture or get to know a person, place, thing, or and Solutionpresents a problem and explains how it is and Contrastpresents the similarities and/or differences between two items, such as events, time periods, or of Eventsdescribes events in the order in which they happen. This is also called chronological Reread the first section. Which key details tell you that the author recounts a sequence of events in this section? _____ Why do you think the author uses this text structure ? _____2.
3 In the section Extraordinary Powers, the author uses both compare-and-contrast and cause-and-effect text Structures . What is an example of each? _____ _____ _____ Continued on next page >Core Skills WorkoutText Structures a race against time November/December 2014 Understanding Text Structures , p. 2 3. The section Passing the Test uses description. W h a t d o e s i t d e s c r i b e ? _____ W h y d o y o u t h i n k t h e a u t h o r u s e s t h i s t e x t s t r u c t u r e ? _____ _____ _____4. Which text structure does the author mainly use in the section Nose to the Ground ?
4 E x p l a i n y o u r a n s w e r u s i n g e x a m p l e s . _____ _____ _____5. Look at the series of photographs at the bottom of pages 6 and 7. Imagine you were going to add a section to the article, providing information conveyed in the pictures and captions. Which text structure would you m a i n l y u s e ? W h y ? _____Name: _____ Date: _____ 2014 Scholastic Inc. Teachers may make copies of this page to distribute to their Skills Workout
