Text Features
Text feature that tells you which pages a topic is mentioned on throughout the book
What is an index?
This text structure uses words such as "On the other hand, similar, different, same"
What is compare/contrast?
Which text structure is used? A biography written about a president's life.
What is chronological order?
What is the color of the top stripe on the America flag?
What is red?
What is a diagram?
This text structure uses words such as "examples, such as, includes"
What is description?
Which text structure is used? A recipe to bake pizza
What is sequence?
How many sides does a stop sign have?
What is 8?
What is a caption?
Which text structure is used? An article about the dangers behind global warming and what we need to do to fix it.
What is problem/Solution?
Which text structure would be best to explain the pros and cons of school uniforms?
What is advantage/disadvantage?
Which professor is head of the Hufflepuff house?
Who is Sprout?
Key words are usually written in this format to draw attention to them
What is bold or italicized font?
Which structure would be used? A letter to the teach explaining all the things that happened to Billy that made him late to school that day.
Which text structure would be best to advertise the new shopping mall that was built and all of the stores and activities it has to offer?
What is description?
How many states are there in the U.S.?
What is 50?
What is a graph?
What text structure is used? An article discussing the differences and similarities between Christmas & Hanukkah.
What is compare/contrast?
Which text structure would be used to split up the different types of cats in the animal kingdom?
What is classification?
On a stop light, where is green located? Top, middle, or bottom?
What is the bottom?