RI.4.5

Common Core Standards Text Structure
Grade:	4th Grade
Standard:	Literacy.RI.4.5
Description:	Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.

Text Structure: Authors organize passages in certain ways to help readers better understand the text. This is called text structure.

Here are four types of text structures an author may use in a passage:

Chronology – when a passage is written in the order of when the events happened or will happen

Comparison – when a passage is written to compare events, ideas, people, things, etc.

Cause and Effect – when a passage shows how one thing (the cause) created, or led to, another (the effect)

Problem and Solution – when a passage shows a problem and tells the reader how to fix it (the solution)

Common Core Standards

Text Structure

Literacy.RI.4.5

Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.