Text Structure

Text Structure

Patterns of Organization

What is Text Structure?

How information in a passage is organized

We will study six common patterns:

• Compare and Contrast
• Sequencing/Chronological
• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution
• Enumeration/Listing
• Process

Compare and Contrast

• Points out likenesses and/or differences
• Explains how two or more things are alike/different

Compare and Contrast Signal Words

-Different from -As well as

-Same as -Yet

-Alike -Either…or

-Like -Not only…but

-Similar to -Compared to…

-Unlike -In contrast

-But -While

Sequencing/Chronological

• Puts facts, events, or concepts in order, traces the development of a topic, lists items or events in chronological order, gives the steps in the process

Chrono = time Logic = order

Example