Text Features
A mini-dictionary at the end of the book that explains the meaning of important words.
What is the glossary?
The people or animals in the story.
What are characters?
A story that is made up and not real.
What is fiction?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
The reason the author writes something (to inform, entertain, or persuade)
What is author’s purpose?
This is at the front of the book and tells you the chapters and page numbers
What is the table of contents?
Where and when the story takes place.
What is the setting?
A book that gives facts about real things.
What is nonfiction?
Giving something non-human human actions.
What is personification?
If the author wants to make you laugh, the purpose is to -
What is to entertain?
Special words that are darker than the rest of the text to show they are important vocabulary.
What is bold words?
The big problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
A story with magical creatures or talking animals.
What is fantasy?
A word that sounds like its meaning, like boom or crack.
What is onomatopoeia?
When a story is told using words like “I” and “me,” what point of view is it?
What is first person?
A picture or drawing with labels to help explain something.
What is a diagram?
The events that lead up to solving the problem.
What is the plot?
A made-up story that could really happen.
What is realistic fiction?
A phrase that means something different than the words say, like “it’s raining cats and dogs.”
What is an idiom?
A story is told by a narrator who is not in the story and uses “he” or “she.”
What is third person?
These are little sentences under pictures that explain what you’re looking at.
What is a caption?
The message or lesson the author wants you to learn.
What is the theme?
A story about a real person’s life, written by someone else.
What is a biography?
A direct comparison without using “like” or “as.”
What is a metaphor?
You read a book about recycling that gives facts and explains how to help the Earth. What’s the author’s purpose?
What is to inform?