What Good Readers Do
Literature Terms
Text-Features
Examples of Text
Fact Detective
100
Readers connect the text to themselves.
What is text-to-self connection?
100
The name of the book,
What is the title?
100
This feature gives you the main idea of the article.
What is the title?
100
The words in an article, story, newspaper, poster, etc.?
What is text?
100
What the story is about.
What is the main idea.
200
Make a movie in your mind.
What is visualization?
200
The person who wrote the book.
What is author?
200
The words near or under the picture in an article.
What is the caption?
200
A piece of non-fiction text that gives us the news.
What is the newspaper?
200
Supports the main idea.
What is a supporting detail.
300
When the reader makes a connection from one story to another story.
What is text-to-text connection?
300
Where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
300
These divide the article into sections.
What are subheadings?
300
Piece of non-fiction text we have been reading throughout the year.
What is Time for Kids?
300
Who the story is about.
Who is the main character?
400
The reader connects the text to events happening in the world.
What is text-to-world connection?
400
Stories that are not true or FAKE.
What is fiction?
400
The small words found under the title that better explain what the article is about.
What is a subtitle?
400
Two short FICTION stories we read recently in Reader/Writer Workshop.
What is "The Giving Tree" and "Chrysanthemum"?
400
This has chapters. This does not.
What is a novel and short story?
500
The reader asks questions out loud while reading to help understand the text.
What is think-aloud?
500
Topics that come up throughout the book.
What is the theme?
500
Pictures
What is an illustration?
500
Other examples of text we see in the classroom.
What are bulletin board, whiteboard, Student of the Month board?
500
The problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
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