Text Structures
Types of Text
Reference Materials
Parts of a Book
Text Features
100
This text structure shows how things are alike or different and is often used in informational text.
What is compare and contrast?
100
Stories passed down from one generation to the next that explain something about nature or humans
What is folklore?
100
appears at the end of a book and gives definitions of key terms
What is a glossary?
100
the name of the book, found on the cover
What is title?
100
appear at the beginning of passages to tell you what the passage is about
What is a heading?
200
Authors of fiction use this text structure when they tell the order in which things happened.
What is sequence?
200
A story with an event that is hard to explain, often the reader is surprised by the end of the story
What is a mystery?
200
provides synonyms and antonyms of words
What is a thesaurus?
200
a collection of extra information found at the back of the book (often tables of statistics)
What is the appendix?
200
under pictures, these explain the picture and tell you what to pay attention to
What are captions?
300
This text structure is used in directions and recipes to explain steps.
What is procedural order?
300
This text uses the sound of language to share ideas dramatically, meant to be read aloud
What is poetry?
300
provides the meaning, parts of speech, and pronunciations of a words
What is a dictionary?
300
found at the beginning of the book, this is a list of chapter titles with page numbers
What is table of contents?
300
break text into smaller sections. They help you find information
What are subheadings?
400
This is when the events in a story have a "why" something happens.
What is cause and effect?
400
the story of a person's life written by another person
What is a biography?
400
a book of maps
What is an atlas?
400
a list of key terms, in alphabetical order with their page numbers, found at the back of the book
What is index?
400
such as italic and boldface, help you pay attention to important words
What are type styles?
500
This text structure is sometimes referred to as conflict and resolution
What is problem and solution
500
written accounts found in newspapers and magazines of conversations that actually took place
What are interviews?
500
contains the phases of the moon and the best time for planting and harvesting
What is an almanac?
500
a note at the bottom, or foot, of a page that gives extra detail
What is footnote?
500
pictures created or drawn in a book to accompany the text
What are illustrations?
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