Text Features
A few lines of text used to explain and elaborate on published photographs.
What is a caption?
This text structure describes or explains a topic, idea, person, place, or thing to give the reader a mental picture.
What is description?
This is what F and NF stand for.
What is fiction and nonfiction?
What is the prepositional phrase(s) in the following sentence? Katie went into the kitchen to eat a snack.
What is into the kitchen?
What is the name for the lesson or message of a piece of writing?
What is theme?
A hand-drawn image of something in the text.
What is an illustration?
This text structure shows different problems and then how the problem is solved.
What is problem and solution?
An account of a person's life written by that person
What is an autobiography?
Where should the comma(s) be? We bought bananas apples oranges and limes.
We bought bananas, apples, oranges, and limes.
Text evidence + _________ = inference!
What is schema?
A small section at the beginning of a piece of writing that outlines the sections or chapters and lists their page numbers.
What is a table of contents?
This text structure presents information by listing events or steps in order (ex: chronological order) using time.
What is sequence?
A genre of nonfiction that is used strictly to inform readers of a topic.
What is informational?
Make the correct sentence: Each student in our class (come/comes) from California, but my brother and sister (come/comes) from North Carolina.
Each student in our class comes from California, but my brother and sister come from North Carolina.
What does each letter stand for when writing a summary? S W B S T
What is Somebody Wanted But So Then?
A simplified drawing showing the appearance, structure, or workings of something; this must have labels.
What is a diagram?
This text structure describes how two or more things are similar and different
A genre involving magical elements, typically inspired by mythology or folklore.
What is fantasy?
Add an apostrophe where needed: She has her three daughters health to think about.
She has her three daughters' health to think about.
When used by an author, this craft leaves readers at the edge of their seats, wondering what will come next.
What are ellipses?
This alphabetically lists all the major topics, events, people, and places discussed in the book and provides page numbers that direct you to each reference.
What is an index?
This text structure connects events that happen with why they happen.
What is cause/effect?
These are the four subgenres of nonfiction writing.
What are biography, autobiography, informational, and persuasive?
What is the possessive form of "they" (spelled correctly!)
What is their?
This POV has the narrator existing outside of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by pronouns such as he, she, or they.
What is third person POV?