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Text Types & Structures Guide

This document outlines four common text types - narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive - and describes their key features and purposes. It also describes five common text structures that authors use to organize information within these text types: sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast, description, and cause and effect. The text structures are defined and include examples of their typical organizational patterns.

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Text Types & Structures Guide

This document outlines four common text types - narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive - and describes their key features and purposes. It also describes five common text structures that authors use to organize information within these text types: sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast, description, and cause and effect. The text structures are defined and include examples of their typical organizational patterns.

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Four Text Types

Text Type & Text Structures


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T he four text types list four general reasons why authors write. Identifying the text type of a passage
helps the reader set the purpose for reading and alerts the reader to the organization of the piece.

Narrative Expository Technical Persuasive


Entertains Facts/ Information to Author tries
information perform a task to convince
Tells a story reader to take a
Text features Steps certain opinion
Character(s), (headings, bold or perform a
setting, problem, words, charts, certain action
resolution graphs, captions)

Five Text Structures


T ext structures are organizational patterns found within the text types. An author often chooses one
main text structure for a piece but may incorporate several of the text structures throughout the piece.

Sequence Problem and Solution Compare and Contrast Description Cause and Effect

Steps Problem, Comparing Details Something


Specific order which is solved how things causes
are the same/ something
Problem different else to happen

Event
1.
Event
2.
3. Event
4.
Solution
5.

Balanced Literacy Second Grade Skidmore & Graber


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