Identifying Text Structure #1

Name: __________________________

Directions: Read the passages. Identify the text structure. Write information from the passage into the appropriate graphic organizer.
Which passage is chronological?
Put information from the passage onto the
graphic organizer.

Which passage is compare and contrast?

Put information from the passage onto the
graphic organizer.

Which passage is sequence?

Put information from the passage onto the
graphic organizer.

Passage Name: ________________________

Passage Name: ________________________

Passage Name: ________________________

What is being compared & contrasted?

4.
First Event
Third Event

Earliest Point
In Time

Most Recent
Point in Time
Second Event

Ways Similar

Ways Different

1.

1.

2.

2.

3.

3.

3.

2.

1.

Which passage is cause and effect?

Which passage is problem and solution?

Which passage is chronological?

Put information from the passage onto the

graphic organizer.

Put information from the passage onto the

graphic organizer.

Put information from the passage onto the

graphic organizer.

Passage Name: ________________________

Passage Name: ________________________

Passage Name: ________________________

Cause #1

Effect

Solution
First Event

Problem

Third Event

Cause #2

Solution

Earliest Point
In Time

Most Recent
Point in Time
Second Event