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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
