Print Features/Graphic Features
Indicates the beginning of a new topic or section in a text.
What is heading or subheading?
This is an author's reason for writing. Hint: PIE.
What is author's purpose?
This is a reasonable guess based on what you know from experience.
What is a prediction?
Contains information about an image or illustration.
What is the caption?
This acronym stands for restate, answer, cite, and explain.
What is R.A.C.E.?
This is to read quickly.
What is skim?
Used to display information about an image or to call attention to additional information.
What is a box, speech balloon, or other shape?
This is a logical guess based on facts and one's own knowledge and experience.
What is an inference?
Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.
What is nonfiction?
To make a comparison between two things that are not alike, but do have something in common.
What is a metaphor?
Call attention to information and organizes a text, such as highlighting text, doodles, and colored backgrounds.
What is color effects?
These are the qualities shown by a character, such as physical traits (tall with brown eyes) or expressions of personality (kind or anxious).
What are character traits?
An essential trait of a biography that helps the reader understand the subject in context to the historical time period and place he or she was born in.
What is setting?
Extreme exaggeration in order to make a point.
What is a hyperbole?
A large capital letter at the beginning of a paragraph.
What is a drop cap?
This is how a character changes over the course of a story.
What is character development?
This type of text conveys ideas through text and visual details.
What is a multimodal text?