What's My Structure ?
S.M.I.L.E
Text Features
Parts of the Story
What's My Genre?
100

The text describes an event and the effects that follow.

What is cause and effect?

100

The part of SMILE that answers this question. Name the letter and the part:

What words or lines help you see things in your mind?

What is L, for Language?

100

A list of topics at the back of the book that tells you all of the pages on which a topic is discussed.

What is an index?

100

Name 5 story elements. 

What are: Character, Setting, plot, problem, solution, key events

100

 This is a story of a real person's life that is written by that person.

What is an Autobiography?
200

The text outlines

chronological events or a

list of steps in a procedure.

What is order and sequence? or chronological order and sequence?

200

The part of smile that answers these questions. Name the letter and the part:

  • How does the poem make you feel?

  • What do you think the author wanted you to feel?

  • What does the poem make you think about?  

  • What is the poet trying to say or share?

What is E for Emotion/Effect?

200

Shows events in chronological order.

What is a timeline?

200

Which is NOT part of the setting?

  1. Day
  2. Time
  3. Problem
  4. Location

What is problem?

200

A story for stage performance.

What is a Play or Drama?
300

The text talks about similarities

and differences between

people, places, things, etc.

What is Compare and Contrast?

300

What letter answers these questions. Name the letter and the part?

What pictures do you see in your mind as you read the poem?

What is I for Images. 

300

A sentence or phrase that accompanies a photo to give more information about what is pictured.

What is a caption?

300

Mrs. Burleson called my name to come sit in her chair. First, she washed my hair. I love the smell of the shampoo she uses. Then, once she was done washing my hair, she began to cut my hair. I love getting my hair cut!

What is the setting of this story?

Farm, Desert, Barbershop, or School?

What is the Barbershop?


300

This kind of book tells about the life a real person.

What is a Biography?

400

The text gives information about a problem and explains one or more solutions.

What is a problem and solution?

400

The part of S M I L E that answers these questions. Name the letter and the part:

  • Who is the speaker?  

  • What is he/she trying to share?  

What is M for Message?

400

A list of topics in the book and the page on which they begin?

What is the Table of Contents?
400

The point in the story where the problem

and intense action come together.

What is the climax?

400

I am a story that takes place in a certain place and time in the past. Real historical figures and settings may be included in my fiction story. What am I?

What is historical Fiction?

500

Text provides details or characteristics of something.

What is description?

500

The part of SMILE that answers these questions? Name the letter and the part.

  • How is the poem organized? 

  • How many stanzas and lines do you see? 

  • Are there rhyming words and/or repetitive text?

What is S for Structure?

500

Shows where a place is located.

What is a Map?

500

A combination of the problem, events, and solution that make up the story.

What is the Plot?


500

This is a story written about events that did not actually happen but could have happened. It usually includes ordinary people in everyday life with struggles and triumphs.

What is Realistic Fiction?

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