Text Features
This text feature is a real time image for an informational text.
Photograph
This text structure is used to provide a wide variety of information about a topic.
Description
This type of writing is a personal story of an event that had an impact on the author's life.
Memoir
This prefix means not.
un-
capitalization, usage, punctuation, spelling
Conventions
This text feature changes the color and size of specific words.
Bold words
This text structure is used when the author wants to show how one thing impacted other things.
Cause and Effect
This type of writing is used when the author is trying to show and prove their point of view, or side, on a topic.
Argument Writing
This prefix means before
Pre-
The feeling the author wants readers to have as they read.
Mood
This text feature includes an image of a location.
This text structure is used when the author provides ways to correct a situation.
Problem and Solution
This type of writing is used when the author is presenting information they have learned about a topic.
Research/Informational Writing
This suffix means full of
-ful or -ous
The formatting requirements that must be met in formal writing.
MLA formatting
This text feature includes a list of chapters/sections and the pages where they start.
Table of contents
This text structure is used by an author to show the order of events.
Chronological or Sequence
This type of writing is used when an author is discussing the elements of a text.
Literary Essay, TDA, or RTL
This root means heat
therm
The central topic or overarching message in a piece of writing.
Theme
This text feature is the location of words and their definition. The words are in alphabetical order.
Glossary
This text structure is used when the author wants to show how things are the same or different.
Compare/Contrast
Failure to give credit to an original author is this.
Plagarism
This root means see
spect/spec
Examining in detail in order to explain the writers thoughts and to connect the claims & premises with the evidence
justification/commentary