Set #4

Question 1

What does a technical text do?

Answer 1

Gives information to explain procedure, events, ideas, or concepts.

Question 2

Give an example of a technical text that we read.

Answer 2

1. How Electricity Works

2. How to Build Your Own Battery

Question 3

What does and informative text do?

Answer 3

Presents true information and supports it with facts and details.

Question 4

Give an example of an informative text we read

Answer 4

What is Heat?

Question 5

What is a persuasive text?

Answer 5

Presents one or both sides of an issue or topic and uses language to have you support a certain way of thinking.

Question 6

Give an example of a persuasive text we read.

Answer 6

“Should Parents Throw Away Their Children’s Halloween Candy?”

Question 7

What is text structure?

Answer 7

The type of organization an author used to build the text

Question 8

Give some key phrases that tell you the author is using problem solution text structure?

Answer 8

The main problem… One issue is… A conflict began…

A solution was… One way to solve this was… It was fixed by…

Question 9

What types of words might tell you the author is using descriptive text structure?

Answer 9

Many adjectives, characteristics, or examples

Question 10

Give some key phrases that tell you the author is using cause-effect text structure.

Answer 10

cause…
because…
the effects…
as a result…
due to…
one reason…