TEXT FEATURES
This text feature appears above a section and tells you what it will be about.
What is a heading or subheading?
This type of text tells a made-up story with characters, a setting, and a plot.
What is fiction?
This is the most important point an author makes in an informational text.
What is the main idea?
This figure of speech compares two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
This natural disaster involves shaking of the Earth's surface caused by movement of tectonic plates.
What is an earthquake?
This text feature explains what is happening in a photo or illustration.
What is a caption?
This type of text gives you facts and information about real people, places, events, or ideas.
What is informational text?
These support the main idea by giving facts, examples, or explanations.
What are key details?
This figure of speech compares two things directly without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
A scientist who studies and predicts weather including hurricanes and tornadoes is called this.
What is a meteorologist?
You would use this text feature at the back of a book to find a specific topic and its page number.
What is an index?
This type of text tells the true story of a real person's life, written by someone else.
What is a biography?
A short retelling of the most important ideas in your own words is called this.
What is a summary?
This figure of speech gives human qualities to a non-human thing. Example: "The wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
This is the term for a massive ocean wave often caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
This text feature appears in a box separate from the main text and gives extra information about the topic.
What is a sidebar?
This type of text features an exaggerated larger-than-life hero and is rooted in American folklore. Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill are examples.
What is a tall tale?
When you use specific words or sentences directly from the text to support your answer, you are doing this.
What is quoting from the text or citing text evidence?
This is when the sound of a word imitates the sound it describes. Examples: buzz, crash, sizzle.
What is onomatopoeia?
This scale from 1–5 measures the intensity of a hurricane based on wind speed.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale?
A diagram, chart, or map in an informational text is called this type of feature.
What is a graphic or visual aid?
This type of text uses rhyme, rhythm, stanzas, and figurative language to express ideas and feelings.
What is poetry?
The main idea is NOT always stated directly — sometimes you have to figure it out yourself. This is called a _______ main idea.
What is an implied main idea?
This figure of speech uses extreme exaggeration to make a point. Example: "I've told you a million times."
What is hyperbole?
Name one way informational texts about natural disasters might use cause and effect text structure.
Explaining what causes a tornado to form and what effects it has on communities — or similar.