Non-Fiction
What are important pieces of information?
Key details
Key details are only found in non-fiction texts?
False
A person or animal in the story.
What is the purpose of a picture/photograph?
To show what the author wants you to learn about.
What do you use to find your answer?
The text
What can you use to help you understand a non-fiction text better?
Text features
What is central message?
The lesson or moral of a story.
The place or location of the story.
This text feature has pictures and words.
A diagram
Where will you find your answer?
In paragraph 3 of "The Land Before Time," what does fossil mean.
Text: The Land Before Time
Paragraph: 3
What is point of view?
A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
Define problem.
What is the purpose of a map?
To show where something is.
What are the parts of a play/drama?
cast/character list, setting, act, and scene
What does compare and contrast mean?
Compare: similar/same
Contrast: different
How does a character change the events of a story?
Through their words and actions.
It is how the character fixes the problem.
What is the purpose of a glossary?
To define/share the meaning of unknown words
List one strategy you could use on a test.
Answers will vary. Teacher must approve.
Define time, sequence, and cause/effect?
Time: day, week, month, year, era
Sequence: Order of events
Cause: Why something happens
Effect: What happens
What are the parts of a poem?
stanza and lines
The beginning, middle, and end of a story.
How can you find the meaning of unknown words?
Use context clues or substitute the words with a word that is similar.
Explain in your own words why illustrations/ pictures are important in a text.