Hidden Structure Clues

In this worksheet, students locate and underline signal words or phrases that reveal a passage’s text structure. Each short paragraph demonstrates one of the five common structures, and learners must use contextual evidence to support their identification. This close-reading activity helps students internalize how authors use linguistic clues to convey relationships between ideas, fostering both analytical and vocabulary development.

Curriculum Matched Skills

English Language Arts – Reading Informational Text: Identify Structural Clues

English Language Arts – Vocabulary: Recognize and Interpret Signal Words

English Language Arts – Reading Comprehension: Author’s Organization

English Language Arts – Critical Thinking: Evidence-Based Identification

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