Informational Text Features
Text Structures
Poetry
Vocabulary
100
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?
100
The author writes in order or in a list. Clue words - first, second, next, after, finally, or dates
What is sequence?
100
a group of neighboring words that begin with the same sound
What is alliteration?
100
conversations, people talking in a story, usually has quotation marks
What is dialogue?
200
A sentence or phrase that tells about a picture, diagram, or other insert.
What is a caption?
200
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?
200
giving human qualities, feelings, or actions to something that is not human
What is personification?
200
what the passage or section is MOSTLY about
What is main idea?
300
A list of important words in a passage with their meanings.
What is the glossary?
300
The author tells about a problem and then gives ways to solve it. Clue words - problem, solution, effect, hopeful
What is problem/solution?
300
similar final sounds in words, usually at the end of lines in a poem
What is rhyme?
300
"The weather is horribly cold" is an example of this.
What is opinion?
400
A tool used to locate the individual pages where specific information can be found in a passage.
What is an index?
400
The author tells one or more ideas and explains how they make other things happen.
What is cause and effect?
400
"The river sparkled like diamonds" is an example of this.
What is literary language, such as simile?
400
A truth that can be tested and proved.
What is a fact?
500
Arrows or lines linking labels to parts of a picture.
What is a diagram?
500
The structure of most fictional stories.
What is plot?
500
the narrator of a poem; the voice of the poem
What is the speaker?
500
a judgment based on a personal point of view
What is bias?
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