Text Structures
What is problem & solution
Help the reader understand a picture or photograph.
What are Captions?
The story of one's life, written by that person.
What is Autobiography?
Help the reader identify key topics in the book and the order they were presented.
What is Table of Contents?
Writings that tell about real people, places and events.
What is Non-Fiction?
This text structure describes characteristics of something
What is description?
Helps the reader by signaling the word is important and/or found in the glossary.
What is Bold or Highlighted Words?
The story of someone's life, written by someone else.
What is Biography?
Helps the reader define words contained in the text.
What is Glossary or Dictionary?
Helps the reader to justify answers. Sometimes written directly and includes a source.
What is textual evidence?
This text structure describes a sequence of events
What is chronological?
Help the reader understand where things are in the world.
What are Maps?
It is a narrative told in the first person.
What is a memoir?
Help the reader identify topics throughout the book as they skim and scan.
What are Headings or Subheadings?
A brief statement or overview of the main points of a selection.
What are summary? Central Idea
This text structure describes the similarities and differences of two or more things
What is compare/contrast?
Slanted text that helps a reader understand the word is important.
What is Italics?
The reason an author writes.
What is author's purpose?
Shows the reader the order of events that something took place, usually drawn on a line showing dates or years.
What is a Timeline?
The feeling or impression the author leaves with their writing
What is Mood?
What text structure is this?
I never brush my teeth, I have 5 cavities
What is Cause and Effect?
Used to convince their readers to agree with a certain idea or opinion
What are persuasive techniques?
Invites readers into the story and uses vivid details based on true events.
What is Narrative nonfiction?
Drawings that help the reader understand exactly what something looks like.
What are Illustrations?
Textual evidence + background knowledge
What is an inference?