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Nonfiction Text Structure Analysis
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Nonfiction Text Structure Analysis
Read each original nonfiction passage. Identify how its ideas are organized, use details as evidence, and explain how structure helps communicate the central idea.
Identify Text Structure
A tornado watch means weather conditions could produce tornadoes. Weather experts monitor radar and reports from the ground. If they detect a tornado or signs that one is forming, they issue a warning for the affected area. People in that area should move to a sturdy shelter and follow local alerts.
1.Which structure best describes how the tornado-watch passage is organized?
- Compare and contrast
- Sequence or chronological order
- Problem and solution
- Description
2.Which phrase from the passage most clearly signals what happens after experts detect a tornado or signs of one forming?
- could produce tornadoes
- monitor radar
- If they detect
- they issue a warning
3.What is the central idea of the tornado-watch passage?
- Radar is the only way to know that a tornado is nearby.
- A watch and a warning describe different stages of monitoring a possible tornado and responding to danger.
- All storms produce tornadoes.
- People should leave their communities whenever a watch is announced.
Analyze and Compare
A school cafeteria may throw away unopened food and scraps, adding to the waste sent to landfills. A share table can help address this problem. Students can place eligible, unopened items there for others to take, following school health rules. The cafeteria can also track which foods are discarded most often and adjust future orders. These steps can reduce waste while helping the school use its food budget wisely.
4.What text structure is used most strongly in “Reducing Food Waste at School”? Explain your choice with two details from the passage.
5.Compare the organization of the tornado-watch passage and the food-waste passage. Which structure helps readers follow steps in a developing event, and which helps readers understand how an issue can be addressed? Use evidence from both passages.
6.How could the food-waste passage make its explanation more convincing? Suggest one kind of evidence the writer could add and explain how it would help.
7.Write a thesis statement that connects the two passages by explaining how an organized response can help people deal with a changing situation.
Apply and Synthesize
8.Brianna is explaining how to prepare for a county fair baking contest. Write a short informational paragraph organized in chronological order. Include at least three sequence signal words.
9.Explain to a younger reader why an author might choose different structures for different topics. Give one everyday example of a topic that would be clearer in sequence and one that would be clearer as a problem and solution.
10.You are planning an article for a county fair newsletter about reducing the amount of rubbish visitors leave behind. Choose a text structure, or a combination of structures, and explain how it would help readers understand the main idea.
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