Informational Text Features
These are the bold words and phrases at the top of passages that give you a sense of what the section will be about.
What is a heading?
The author writes in order or in a list. Clue words - first, second, next, after, finally, or dates and time stamps.
What is sequence or chronological order?
a group of neighboring words that begin with the same sound
What is alliteration?
The narrator or voice of a poem?
What is the speaker?
A sentence or phrase that tells about a picture, diagram, or other insert.
What is a caption?
The author describes how things are the same and different. Clue words - on the other hand, but, in contrast, like, similar, difference
What is compare and contrast?
giving human qualities, feelings, or actions to something that is not human
What is personification?
An important message or idea the author wants you to understand throughout a story.
Can be applied to the outside world and many situations.
What is theme?
A list of important words in a passage with their meanings.
What is the glossary?
The author tells about a problem and then gives ways to solve it. Clue words - problem, solution, effect, hopeful
What is problem/solution?
similar final sounds in words
What is rhyme?
A group of lines in a poem?
The type of graphic organizer used to compare and contrast a topic or items.
What is a venn diagram?
The author tells one or more ideas and explains how they make other things happen.
What is cause and effect?
A comparison using the words like or as.
Example: The river sparkled like diamonds.
What is a simile?
A rhyming pattern that is created at the end of lines of poetry.
What is a rhyme scheme?
Arrows or lines linking labels to parts of a picture.
What is a diagram?
The author explains one topic in great detail and provides many facts
What is descriptive?
A word is used to represent a sound
Example: sizzle, splat, crack, pop
What is onomatopeia?
Poems that do not have a rhyme scheme are considered what type of poetry?
What is a free verse poem?