provides information about a topic or explains how something works
What is expository writing?
100
This is when the font of a word appears darker or blacker or thicker than the other words.
What is "bold"?
100
These are pictures taken with a camera to show the reader exactly what something looks like in real life.
What is "photographs"?
100
This is at the beginning of a book and helps the reader find key topics or chapters in the order they are presented.
What is a table of contents?
100
Words that help the reader identify a picture, photograph, or diagram and its parts.
What are labels?
200
This format contains a topic sentence, middle sentences that provide details about the topic, and a closing sentence.
What is a paragraph?
200
This is when the word has a line underneath it.
What is "underlined"?
200
These are pictures that are drawn with pencil, marker, or computer generated effects to give the reader an idea of what a character, place, or thing might look like.
What are "illustrations"?
200
This is an alphabetic list of the important words and what they mean from the text. It is often found at the end of a text.
What is a glossary?
200
Words, phrases, or sentences, that help a reader understand or interpret a picture, photograph, or illustration. They might give additional information about the subject.
What are captions?
300
This sentence contains the main idea and explains the general meaning of a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
300
This is when the word is written in all upper case letters.
What is "capitalized"?
300
A visual image of a geographic feature that usually has a key or distance scale.
What is a map?
300
This is an alphabetical list of almost every important topic covered in the text and the page numbers where the information can be found.
What is the index?
300
Information given on a map to help the reader understand the map and the color code or other symbols used. A table that explains the symbols used on a map.
What is a key or a legend?
400
The sentences in this part develop the main idea with important supporting details.
What is the body of a paragraph?
400
This is when a computer generated word is written in a slanted form, such as for a title of a book.
What is "italics"?
400
a simplified drawing showing the appearance, structure, or workings of something; a schematic representation.
What is a "diagram"?
400
This is an alphabetical list of resources, books, articles, or webpages that the author used in researching the text or that are quoted somewhere in the text.
What is a bibliography?
400
a linear representation of important events in the order in which they occurred. A graphic representation of the passage of time.