Text Structures
This text structure explains how two or more things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
This text features shows a real image taken with a camera.
What is a photograph?
Summaries should be this (short or long)
What is brief?
A caption is a text feature that appears where?
What is below a picture or image?
What percentage does a test count towards your grade?
What is 40%?
This structure lists events or steps in the order they happen.
What is sequence?
This feature is a labeled drawing that explains or shows information.
What is illustration?
A summary should include only this kind of information.
What is important information?
What does the word 'flourished' mean in a text about dinosaurs?
What is thrived or grew well?
Where are the resources located to study for your test?
This structure presents a problem and one or more ways to solve it.
What is problem and solution?
This is a diagrammatic map showing physical features, cities, and roads.
What is a map?
This is the sentence that tells the main idea of a text.
What is central idea or main idea sentence?
This text structure would most likely be used when describing the parts of an atom.
What is description?
What application will the test be on?
What is Mastery Connect?
This structure tells about the causes of something and the effects that follow.
What is cause and effect?
This helps readers find topics and page numbers inside a book.
What is the table of contents?
These words can help you write a main idea sentence by showing the topic and what the author does with it (like 'examines' or 'compares'.)
This structure describes details or characteristics of a topic to help readers picture it.
What is description?
This helps locate topics and page numbers within an informational text. The list is in alphabetical order.
What is index?
When writing a summary, you should do this to details that are interesting but not necessary.
What is leave them out or skip them?
True or false: A heading helps a reader understand what a section of text is about.
What is true?