Text Features
A puzzle where you have to figure out how two different things are similar. (For example socks are to feet as gloves are to?)
Analogy
A belief, judgment, or how you feel about something. (I believe that students should be able to pick the teachers they get to learn from.)
Opinion
To figure (two people or things) out how things are different. (Dogs and wolvers are DIFFERENT because…)
Contrast
A type of writing that describes a position that a business is hiring for. (Walmart needs to hire a grocery stocker. This position includes: stocking shelves with food, heavy lifting, etc.)
Job Announcement
A piece of writing that tells a story and is performed on a stage. (A play about the three little bears using a script for the students to read from)
Drama
A phrase or expression that uses words in a figurative way rather than in a plain or literal way. (Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole, Personification, etc.)
Figure of Speech
True piece of information. (In the year 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean to America.)
Fact
A statement that tells you how something or someone looks, sounds, etc. Words that describe something or someone. (The red apple crunched as I bit into it with my white teeth) instead of (I ate the apple).
Description
When someone sits down and writes about portions of their life they feel are important to share with others. (George Washington sat down and began to write about his experiences at Fort Knox.)
Memoir
A way of arranging the sounds or beats in poetry: a particular rhythmic pattern in poetry. (The poem is written in iambic pentameter).
Meter
Words that are at the top of a page in a dictionary or similar book and that show the first and last words on the page.
Guide Words
When you give an instance to help explain something you are talking about. (One type of dangerous weather is a tornado.)
Example
To look at (two or more things) closely in order to see what is similar about them or in order to decide which one is better. (Dogs and Wolves are similar because…)
Compare
A story that uses gods and goddesses to explain a belief, or natural occurrence. (Pandora’s Box explains how evil entered into the world.)
Myth
When an author a text something to give you facts about something to help you learn. (Science Books, Newspaper article, Social Studies book, etc.)
Informational/ Inform
A sentence or group of words that is written on or next to a picture to explain what is being shown.
Caption
To give reasons for or against something; to say or write things in order to change someone's opinion about what is true, what should be done, etc.
Argue
Information in the form of a table, diagram, etc.
Chart
A short piece of writing that tells a person's thoughts or opinions about a subject. (In school today we had to write about the planet Saturn.)
Essay
The turning point of the story, when the main character usually solves the problem/conflict. Often the most exciting and important part of a story, play, or movie that occurs usually near the end.
Climax
A note with added information that is placed below the text on a printed page.
Footnote
To cause (someone) to do something by asking, arguing, or giving reasons. (I really felt like I deserved a raise in my allowance, so I talked my parents into giving me more money for an allowance.
Persuade
When you use the clues the author gives and your background knowledge to figure out what is happening.
Inference/Infer
When an author creates something for the purpose of people enjoying, laughing, feeling suspense and mystery. (Hunger Games, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Despicable Me movies)
Entertainment/ to Entertain
The important thought the author wants you to understand. (The _________________________ of the commercial was to not smoke because it is unhealthy for your body.)
Main Idea/Theme/Purpose