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Text Structures

“If students know what to look for in terms of text structure, they grasp the meaning more easily.” – Stephanie Harvey. Text Structures. Knowing how to identify text structure helps the reader… remember information identify author’s purpose take useful notes improve writing skills.

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Text Structures

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  1. “If students know what to look for in terms of text structure, they grasp the meaning more easily.” – Stephanie Harvey Text Structures

  2. Knowing how to identify text structure helps the reader… • remember information • identify author’s purpose • take useful notes • improve writing skills Why care?

  3. Text structure is how a piece of text is built. Author’s use different text structures to build their ideas and communicate ideas in different ways. What is Text structure?

  4. The author describes a topic by listing characteristics, features, and examples. Signal Words – To begin with For example Most important Description

  5. The author lists items or events in numerical or chronological order. The author provides steps to follow in a process. Signal Words – First Next Then Finally Sequence or chronological order

  6. The author explains how two or more things are alike and/or how they are different. Signal Words – Similar Different On the other hand However Both Compare and Contrast

  7. The author lists one or more causes (why something happened) and the resulting effects (what happened). Signal Words – Therefore As a result Reasons why Influenced by Cause and effect

  8. The author states one or more problems and lists one or more solutions for the problem. Signal Words – Question Answer One reason for… To solve this… Problem and solution

  9. Rebecca J. Rozmiarek www.readingquest.org www.austinschools.org http://www.slideshare.net/elkissn/understanding-text-structures (slide 50) Information borrowed from…

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