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Grade 3 Reading & Writing · World 7: Fact Finders' Lab · Level 59
Text Structures
Sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, problem and solution, description, and their signal words.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 59
- Authors organize informational texts in different ways, called text structures. Signal words are clues.
- Sequence tells steps or events in order: first, next, then, finally. Cause and effect tells why something happened: because, so, as a result.
- Compare and contrast tells how things are alike and different: both, but, however, unlike.
- Problem and solution tells what went wrong and how it was fixed. Description tells what something is like, with lots of details.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 3.T.SS.1.a — Describe how texts are arranged to represent information and ideas using text features (e.g., map, captions) and organizational structures (e.g., cause/effect), referring to parts of texts using terms such as chapter or section. (I)