Types of Texts
Features of this genre include facts, statistics, graphics, and data.
What is nonfiction/informational texts?
Details from the text used to justify and support your answer.
What is text evidence?
This strategy helps activate prior knowledge and set a purpose for what you are about to read.
What is previewing the text?
She was like a ninja, fighting criminals with lightening speed!
What is a simile?
The amount of time given for the STAAR Reading test.
What is 4 hours?
Features of this text include imaginary characters, setting, plot, mood, and theme.
To make a brief statement of the main events of a text. It has to include details from the beginning, middle, and end of the text; it should also be descriptive yet to the point.
What is summary/summarize?
This strategy involves making markings, such as highlighting important details, underlining or circling unknown words, as well as jotting quick notes or questions about the text.
What is annotating/annotations?
As I stared in amazement at the brilliant golden-orange and red hues, a crisp breeze chilled my nose and cheeks. The leaves of the trees gently rustled against one another, in the soft wind, and gave off the sweet aroma that autumn had finally arrived.
What is imagery/sensory details?
This strategy helps you narrow down your answer choices.
What is elimination/eliminating answer choices?
Features of this text include lines, rhythm, figurative language, stanzas, and rhyme.
What is poems/poetry?
Identifying similarities and differences between ideas or texts.
What is compare and contrast?
This strategy helps you understand a word's meaning by looking at other, more familiar words in the sentence.
What is context clues?
He was so exhausted that he could have slept for a thousand years straight.
What is hyperbole?
When actually used, this resource helps find the exact meaning of words.
What is a dictionary?
Features of this text include characters, dialogue, stage directions, and scene/setting descriptions.
What is drama/play?
Taking what you know and what you have read to come up with a conclusion about the information presented in a text.
What is infer/inference?
This strategy helps regain focus when comprehension begins to break down and readers are confused about a certain section of the text by jotting questions in the margin of the text.
What is questioning?
"When all at once I saw a crowd / A host, of golden daffodils; / Beside the lake, beneath the trees, / fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
What is personification?
This resource helps you find synonyms and antonyms for a word.
What is a thesaurus?
Features of this include two reading selections related to each other in either idea, topic, or theme.
What is paired passages?
When a reader is focusing on the text by closely reading and annotating the text.
What is active reading?
This strategy requires you to read and the briefly summarize the main idea of the paragraph in the margin of the text.
What is main idea notes?
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players. They have their exits and their entrances."
What is a metaphor?
When you see an underlined word in a selection, you automatically know that -
What is there will be a question about the underlined word?