Signal Words for Text Structure

Post the signal word chart from Signal Words for Text Structure while students work on Name the Text Structure. Save the bats article and the garden story for longer reading time.

Sort 15 signal words like however and as a result into 5 text structures, then write 2 sentences. Signal words are words and phrases that show how ideas in a text are connected, so they are clues to its structure. The directions on the page read: Write each signal word from the box in the column for the text structure it signals. Then write two sentences that use signal words. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade comprehension exercises, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with identifying text structure. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Description, sequence, compare and contrast, cause and effect and problem and solution. Name the Text Structure has students circle one for each of 6 paragraphs, from making paper by hand to Mae Jemison's life.

However and unlike signal compare and contrast, first and finally signal sequence, and as a result signals cause and effect. Signal Words for Text Structure sorts 15 of them into 5 columns.

Yes. How a Scene Fits the Whole Story explains the 3 scenes of Saturdays at the Garden and the stanzas of The Maple Outside My Window.