Text Features
What is a text feature?
Helps you to locate facts or details in a text
What is perspective?
How a character feels or what they think
What are the different types of poems?
Limerick, haiku, free verse, rhymed verse
What is central idea?
The topic and the point, who or what, what is the author telling me
When you compare and contrast, you only tell how things are alike.
FALSE
Example of text feature
Bullet point, photograph, heading, caption, sidebar, title, illustration, table of contexts, diagram
How can I determine perspective?
What the character does, what the character says, how they react, how they feel
What is a limerick?
Funny, 5 lines, same rhythm and rhyme
What helps me understand the central idea?
The strategy to use for comparing and contrasting is:
Rereading
If I want to know what is happening in a picture what text feature do I look for?
Caption
Is this a text detail of perspective.... Archer was playing baseball and hit a homerun
What is the difference between rhythm and rhyme?
Rhythm is the pattern of beats and rhyme is words that end in the same sounds
How do I take notes on central idea?
What the central idea is, and the text details that support it
What does it mean to compare?
To tell how something is the same, similar or alike.
If I want to know what information is in the text what text feature do I look for?
Table of contents
Is this a text detail of perspective.... Abby was so excited to become a big sister
No
What is the difference between a line and a stanza?
A line is one row of a stanza, a stanza is the organized section of the poem
What is a strategy to find central idea?
Boxes and buttons, beginning and end, text features
When you compare and contrast, you tell about one thing.
FALSE
Displays information
Diagram
Is this a text detail of perspective..... Abby could not stop smiling, she said "I am so excited to be a big sister"
Yes
What type of poem is this?
There was a young woman named Bright,
Whose speed was much faster than light.
She set out one day,
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.
In the Keeping Quilt, was the central idea that Patricia and Enzo used the quilt as a Huppa at the wedding?
Yes or no? How do you know?
No, the story was about the significance of the quilt passed through generations