English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 4

ELA21.4.23a

Identify and describe the structures within a text, including description, comparison and contrast, sequence, problem and solution, and cause and effect.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

  • Informational text often follows a particular text structure and understanding the types of text structure can help improve comprehension.
  • A text that follows a description structure will provide facts and details about a topic.
  • A text that follows a comparison and contrast structure will describe how two or more things are alike or different.
  • A text that follows a sequence text structure will describe events that occurred in chronological order.
  • Problem and solution text structure describes a problem and how the problem was solved or could be solved.
  • Cause and effect text structure describes an event (the cause) and the consequence or result of the event (the effect).

Skills

  • Identify the type of text structure a text follows.
  • Describe characteristics of the text structure.

Understanding

  • Texts follow a predictable structure that contributes to the overall meaning of the text.

Vocabulary

  • Description
  • Comparison and contrast
  • Sequence
  • Problem and solution
  • Cause and effect
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