Text Features
Text Organization
Author's Purpose
Fiction Chart
100
This is found in the beginning of the book and it tells the page numbers of a section.
What is table of contents?
100
The selection is told in time line order.
What is sequence?
100
The reason why a writer writes the selection.
What is author's purpose?
100
1st person 3rd person
What is author's point of view?
200
It is an alphabetical listing in the back of the book that tells the page number of where you can find a subject.
What is the index?
200
Two different selections on the same topic and one is a historical fiction selection and the other one is a nonfiction selection.
What is compare/contrast?
200
The selection tells us about sharks.
What is to inform?
200
not real; made up stories
What is fiction?
300
This contains vital information under a picture.
What is a caption?
300
This selection has a heading and supporting details.
What is main idea with details?
300
The selection tries to change my opinion.
What is to persuade?
300
Author's purpose
What is to entertain?
400
A picture or graph that is real and from the time period studied.
What is a primary source?
400
In history an event happens and then a result from that event occurs.
What is cause and effect?
400
The selection gives information that you have to know for a test.
What is to teach?
400
Story teaches a lesson
What is a fable?
500
A number is shown in the text next to a word and then the number is on the bottom of the page with the definition.
What is a footnote?
500
The way a selection is organized.
What is text structure?
500
Three author's purposes for nonfiction.
What is to persuade, to inform, and to teach?
500
Has imaginary creatures and princes and princess where good wins over evil
What is a fairy tale?
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