Text Structure and Signals

This worksheet helps students connect signal words to their corresponding text structures. Learners draw lines between structure types and signal words, then sort grouped signal phrases into categories like cause/effect or chronological. A mini writing application at the bottom prompts students to use one signal word from each structure in an original sentence. This activity builds understanding of textual organization through explicit vocabulary practice, reinforcing how transitions and connectors reveal structure in nonfiction writing.

Curriculum Matched Skills

English Language Arts – Vocabulary: Transition and Signal Word Recognition

English Language Arts – Reading Informational Text: Determine Text Structure

English Language Arts – Writing: Use of Cohesive Devices

English Language Arts – Grammar and Syntax: Logical Relationships

This worksheet is part of our Matching Text to Structure Type collection.