Author's Organization
Text Features
Author's Purpose
Genre
Miscellaneous
100
Describes items or events in order.
What is sequence?
100
At the top of the text or passage.
What is the title?
100
Often funny such as cartoons.
What is to entertain?
100
Might begin with "Once upon a time..."
What is a fairy tale?
100
Who or what did what.
What is main idea?
200
Shows how two or more things are alike.
What is compare & contrast?
200
These may be under pictures and explain.
What is a caption?
200
Non-fiction, facts.
What is to inform?
200
Story written by the same person whom the story is about.
What is an autobiography?
200
The beginning, middle, and end of a fiction story.
What is a summary?
300
Signal words may be "Question is.., To solve this...".
What is problem and solution?
300
These may be bside items that are listed.
What are bullets?
300
May be a diary or journal.
What is to express?
300
Exaggerated story that is not true.
What is a tall tale?
300
To make a guess based upon information from the story.
What is a prediction?
400
A topic, ideas, person, place, or thing (features may be listed).
What is description?
400
Writing that is slanted to show attention.
What are italitcs?
400
Could be an editor's note or advertisement.
What is to persuade?
400
May involve science in the possible future but isn't real.
What is science fiction?
400
The part of a story that is basically the plan.
What is a plot?
500
Why something happened and what happened.
What is cause and effect?
500
Features that show a character is speaking in a cartoon.
What are word bubbles?
500
The reason why a person writes.
What is the meaning of author's purpose?
500
A story that seems real, but isn't, and it is usually portrayed in a certain time period or event in the past.
What is historical fiction?
500
This is using background knowledge and your schema.
What is inference?
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