Text Features
Text Structures
Context Clues
Books We've Read
Text Features - EXTREME Edition (x2 points)
100
This text feature shows you what something looks like.
Photograph/Photo/Picture
100
This text structure explains the similarities and differences between two or more topics.
Compare & Contrast
100
What's the meaning of nestled:
The cubs nestled together to keep warm during the cold weather.
To lay closely or next to
100
What animals did Sneed B Collard III write about?
Lizards
100
This text feature tells you what a subsection will be about.
Subheading
200
This text feature is the title for a section.
Headings
200
This text structure introduces the main idea and supporting details of a text.
Description
200
What's the meaning of feeble:
Even though she is feeble, the old lady still walks a mile every day.
To be weak
200
What was the name of the Laysan Albatross?
Wisdom
200
This text feature tells you where the author got their information from.
Bibliography
300
This text feature tells you what's happening in a picture/photo/illustration/diagram/map/etc.
Captions
300
This text structure is written in the specific order in which things happened (ex: biographies or directions).
Chronological/Sequential/Order & Sequence
300
What's the meaning of glare:
The driver could barely see because of the glare of the sun.
A strong light in the eyes.
300
What did Gertrude Ederle swim acorss?
The English Channel
300
This text feature shows you what the inside of something looks like.
Cutaway
400
This text feature tells you the definitions of content specific words in a text.
Glossary
400
This text structure introduces an issue and how it could be fixed.
Problem and Solution
400
What's the meaning of vanished:
My mom’s smile vanished when she heard the bad news.
to stop existing/disappear/go away
400
Name one animal affected by climate change/global warming that we read about in A Warmer World.
Golden Toad/Penguins/Krill/Coral Reefs/Fish (Carp, Bass, Salmon, Trout)
400
This text feature tells you what page(s) to find specific information throughout a nonfiction book.
Index
500
This text feature lists the pages and headings of different sections at the beginning of a book.
Table of Contents
500
This text structure introduces an event and what happens because of that event.
Cause and Effect
500
What's the meaning of immense:
The immense wave pulled the boat under water.
Very large
500
What did we read about FIRST in I is for Idea?
Bicycles
500
This text feature organizes things into a list.
Bullets/Bullet Points