- 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)
5th Grade Reading - Text Structure Lesson