Clarifications:
Essential Understandings
- Identify signal words for descriptive, problem/solution, time/order, compare/contrast or cause/effect (e.g., description – is, for example, and such as; problem/solution – the problem is, solve, and difficulty; time/order – first, next, initially, finally, and after; compare/contrast – is similar, different, and however; and cause/effect – since, because, consequently, if, and then).
- Match a list of given signal words to the appropriate text structure.
| Number: LAFS.4.RI.2.AP.5a | Category: Access Points |
| Date Adopted or Revised: 06/14 | Cluster: Craft and Structure |