Evaluate how text features and structures contribute to the meaning of an informational text.
Identify and describe the structures within a text, including description, comparison and contrast, sequence, problem and solution, and cause and effect.
Interpret information from text features in both print and digital formats.
Arizona Academic Standards:
4.RI.5
Common Core State Standards:
Literacy.RI.4.5
Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE):
ELAGSE4RI5
Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
North Carolina - Standard Course of Study:
RI.4.5
Describe the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Tennessee Academic Standards:
4.RI.CS.5
Describe the overall structure of events, ideas, and concepts of information in a text or part of a text.
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
CC.1.2.4.e
Use text structure to interpret information (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution).
Pennsylvania Core Standards:
E04.B-C.2.1.2
Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information and text features in a text or part of a text.
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.4.R.2.1
Explain how text features contribute to the meaning and identify the text structures of problem/solution, sequence, and description in texts.
4th Grade Reading - Text Structure Lesson
Text Structure
Authors organize passages in certain ways to help readers better understand the text. This is called text structure.
Here are four types of text structures an author may use in a passage:
Chronology – when a passage is written in the order of when the events happened or will happen
Comparison – when a passage is written to compare events, ideas, people, things, etc.
Cause and Effect – when a passage shows how one thing (the cause) created, or led to, another (the effect)
Problem and Solution – when a passage shows a problem and tells the reader how to fix it (the solution)