Text Structure Definition Signal Words Graphic Organizer Generalization | The author gives general, a broad, general everyone, statement which | always, example, is supported with usually examples. Cause and Effect | The author because, cause, describes an event and what happens as a result, effect, due to, as a result, if... then Compare and Contrast The author explains how two or more things alike, different, both, same, similar, differ, are alike and neither, on the Ms lo” different. other hand Problem and | The author problem, solution, Solution explains a solve, dilemma, = problem and puzzle an Chronological/ Sequential offers one or more solutions. The author explains an even in the order it happened or gives steps ina sequence. first, second, then, next, finally, before, after, times, dates => Ss