Text Features
This text feature helps you quickly find the page where a topic appears in a book.
What is the index?
This structure tells events in time order.
What is chronological order?
Comparing two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
Before selecting an answer this strategies helps reduce incorrect answers.
Eliminate two answer choices.
The main idea tells what the text is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
This text feature lists the chapters of a book and the pages where they start.
What is the table of contents?
This structure explains a problem and how it was solved.
What is problem and solution?
Comparing two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
What is R.A.C.E.?
Details that support the main idea are called:
Supporting details
A text feature that explains a picture, map, or diagram.
What is a caption?
This structure explains why something happened and what happened because of it.
What is cause and effect?
Giving human traits to something not human.
What is personification?
What does the R.A.C.E. Strategy stand for:
Restate your question, Answer your question, Cite your evidence, & Explain how your evidence supports your answer.
A conclusion you make using clues from the text and your thinking is called:
Inference
This text feature explains difficult words found in the text.
What is a glossary?
This structure shows how two things are alike and different.
What is compare and contrast?
“Her smile was sunshine.”
What type of figurative language is this?
What is a metaphor?
The 5 sections completed when writing an Essay (ECY- Extended Contructed Response)
Introduction, Body Paragraph 1, Body Paragraph 2, Conclusion
The message or lesson the author wants you to learn.
Theme
Why would an author include a diagram in an informational text?
To help the reader understand how something works or looks.
Uses adjectives organizes information by detailing characteristics, features, and sensory details about a specific topic, person, place, or object to create a vivid mental image.
What is descriptive text structure?
“He was as fast as lightning.”
How does this simile help the reader understand the character?
It shows he is extremely fast.
Hashtags # with notes for each paragraph
When a reader uses clues from the text and their own thinking to understand something not directly stated.
Inferencing