Text Features
Question: What tells what the whole text is mostly about?
Answer: The title.
Question: What is a diagram?
Answer: A picture that explains something, such as parts or steps.
Question: Who is the story mostly about?
Answer: The main character.
Question: The words I, my, and me usually show which point of view?
Answer: First-person point of view.
Question: What is one row in a poem called?
Answer: A line.
Question: Which text feature tells the meaning of a bold word?
Answer: The glossary.
Question: What does a caption do?
Answer: A caption explains what a picture or diagram shows.
Question: What is the setting of a story?
Answer: Where and when the story happens.
Question: If the narrator uses he, she, or they, what point of view is it usually?
Answer: Third-person point of view.
Question: What is a group of lines in a poem called?
Answer: A stanza.
Question: What does a heading help the reader understand?
Answer: It tells what one section is about.
Question: Which graphic feature can show the stages of a seed growing in order?
Answer: A diagram.
Question: What is the problem in a story?
Answer: The challenge or trouble the character faces.
Question: “I reached into my backpack and froze.” What point of view is this?
Answer: First-person point of view.
Question: Which word is onomatopoeia: BOOM, gray, or cloud?
Answer: BOOM.
Question: If germinate is a bold word, where should you look for its meaning?
Answer: Look in the glossary.
Question: In a diagram, why are arrows helpful?
Answer: They show the order or direction of the steps.
Question: What is the solution in a story?
Answer: How the problem gets fixed.
Question: Why do readers look for words like I, my, she, and he?
Answer: To help figure out who is telling the story.
Question: What is a simile?
Answer: A comparison using like or as.
Question: Name two text features from our assessment.
Answer: Possible answers: title, heading, bold word, glossary.
Question: What should a caption under a seed-growth diagram tell the reader?
Answer: It should tell what the diagram shows, such as the stages of a seed growing into a plant.
Question: When you retell a story, what three parts should you tell in order?
Answer: Beginning, middle, and end.
Question: Give one word from a first-person story that proves the narrator is in the story.
Answer: Possible answers: I, me, my, we, us, our.
Question: What is a metaphor?
Answer: A comparison that says one thing is another thing without using like or as.