Text Features
What helps readers know what something looks like?
Pictures/illustrations
What is the way an author organizes information in a written work, such as a story or essay?
Text Structure
What is the first step in developing the central idea of a text?
A. Think about how the evidence supports the central idea
B. Making connections
C. Finding facts, definitions, quotes, & details
D. Identifying the topic
D. Identify the topic
What are the three rhetorical appeals that an author may use to establish their purpose in the text?
Logos, Ethos, Pathos
What is the implied or figurative meaning of a word?
Connotation
What helps the reader understand an image?
Caption
What is the text structure that uses signal words such as "however, on the other hand, in contrast, similarly, etc."?
Compare and Contrast
What is the second step in developing the central idea in a text?
A. Think about how the evidence supports the central idea
B. Making connections
C. Finding facts, definitions, quotes, & details
D. Identifying the topic
B. Making connections
What is an appeal to readers emotions that may use analogies, humor, etc.?
Pathos
Denotation
What provides definitions and is usually located at the bottom of the page?
Footnotes
What is the text structure that tells readers what something looks like, sounds like, smells like, and/or feels like?
Description
What is the third step in developing the central idea in a text?
A. Think about how the evidence supports the central idea
B. Making connections
C. Finding facts, definitions, quotes, & details
D. Identifying the topic
C. Finding facts, definitions, quotations, and details
What is an appeal to credibility, ethics, or moral principles?
Ethos
Inference, definitions, examples, antonym, and synonym are all used to find word meanings in a text and they are all types of what?
Context Clues
What identifies topics within a text?
Subheading
What is the text structure that uses signal words such as "First, then, after, next, etc."?
Chronological
What is the fourth step in developing the central idea in a text?
A. Think about how the evidence supports the central idea
B. Making connections
C. Finding facts, definitions, quotes, & details
D. Identifying the topic
A. Think about how the evidence supports the central ideas
What is an appeal to logic or reason that uses data, statistics, facts, etc.?
Logos
Simile, Alliteration, Metaphor, Personification, Hyperbole, and Onomatopoeia are all examples of different types of what?
Figurative Language
What helps the reader locate topics?
Table of Contents
What is the text structure that uses signal words such as "as a result, if, then, due to, therefore, etc."?
Cause and Effect
What types of support help to develop the central idea in a text?
(Hint: there are four)
Facts, Definitions, Quotations, Details
What are the three main purposes for writing a text?
To persuade, to inform, to entertain
What does the prefix "pre" mean?
Before; prior to; in front of