TOPIC/OBJECTIVE: NAME:

Internal Text Structures CLASS/PERIOD:

DATE:

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What are internal text structures? Are there keywords I can see in a text to help me understand
the structure?

Questions

What are text structures?

• How a text is __________

• Nonfiction has lots of text

structures.

Chronological
• Each paragraph may be
different.

● In order of __________.
● Chrono = time
Key words/Signal words ● Stories are told
chronologically

• _______

• Second

• Soon

• Then

• Now

• Immediately

Signal Questions • Until

• _________
Sequence • When
 • Before

• After

• Does the article mention a

Key words / Signal words time frame?

• Are events told in the order

they happened?
Steps described in the
_______ they occur.

Does______ take place at any

specific point in time.
Signal Questions

• First
• _____________
Cause and Effect
• Next
• Then
• Before
• _____________
Key words / Signal words • Finally
• Following
• Not long after
• Now
• Soon

• What items, events, or

steps are listed?

• Do they always happen in

this order?

● Explains reasons
______something
happened.
● Or explains the________
of something.

• So
• Because
• Since
• Therefore
• If…then
• This led to
• Reason why
• As a result
• May be due to
• Effect of
• Consequently
• For this reason