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Analyze the structure of a specific paragraph or group of sentences: This involves considering how information in general and sentences in particular are arranged within a paragraph, particularly as the structure relates to the author’s purpose. Also crucial is the sequence or arrangement of the sentences within a paragraph, especially as they express cause and effect or otherwise serve to develop an idea.

Analyze the structure of texts: This refers to how authors organize their ideas and their texts as a whole. Through structural patterns—at the sentence, paragraph, and whole-text level—authors emphasize certain ideas and create such effects as tension, mystery, and humor.

Electronic menu and icons: These are the drop-down menus on computer applications and programs or icons on digital devices that users activate to get information.

Range of text types: The Common Core State Standards divide texts into literature and informational texts. The subcategories under literature are stories, drama, and poetry. Stories include children’s adventure stories, folktales, legends, fables, fantasy, realistic fiction, and myth. Drama includes staged dialogue and brief familiar scenes. Poetry includes nursery rhymes and the subgenres of the narrative poem, limerick, and free verse poem. Subcategories under informational texts are literary nonfiction and historical, scientific, and technical texts. These include biographies and autobiographies; books about history, social studies, science, and the arts; technical texts, including directions, forms, and information displayed in graphs, charts, and maps; and digital sources on a range of topics.