Fiction or Nonfiction
The Three Little Pigs
What is fiction?
A list of facts or numbers arranged in a special order, usually in rows and columns
What is a table?
drawings that help the reader understand the text.
What is an illustration?
This is at the beginning of a text and tells the reader the different chapters or sections of the book and where each chapter or section begins.
What is a table of contents?
MICROPHONE QUESTION
Authors use this type of print to signal important information or new words. These words appear darker than normal.
What are bold words?
Encyclopedia LETTER: G
What is nonfiction?
Information is presented with lines, bars, or pictures to show how 2 or more sets of data are related to each other.
What is a graph?
A short explanation under a picture that gives information about the picture
What is a caption?
Gives information about a specific place or location mentioned in the text.
What is a map?
What key on the keyboard would I press if I wanted to type consistently with uppercase letters.
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What is the CAPS LOCK key?
Scholastic News
What is Nonfiction?
This (circular) type of graph presents information in the form of percentages.
What is a pie chart?
MICROPHONE QUESTION!!
This type of text feature allows readers to find the definition for keywords identified within the text. This will be found in the back of the book in alphabetical order.
What is a glossary?
a list of topics related to the subject of the book. The numbers besides the topic tells the reader where information about the topic will appear in the book.
What is an index?
these words have a line underneath them. Sometimes these words are new and content-specific vocabulary words.
MICROPHONE QUESTION!!
A newspaper article of the Lions game this past weekend reported that the Lions ____!
What is a nonfiction newspaper clipping?
A picture of where something is located.
What is a map?
Words that identify different parts of a diagram or picture
What is a label?
or What are labels?
MICROPHONE QUESTION!
This text feature shows the order (or sequence) in which certain events occurred
What is a timeline?
In PearDeck, when we are asked to locate text evidence, it would be common to _______ the words or phrases
What is highlight?
Acceptable other answers. . . underline or circle
STAR WARS
What is a fiction?
MICROPHONE QUESTION
Boxed information on the side of the page that may include text or illustrations that add to the information in the main text.
What is a side bar?
a special kind of picture which shows different parts of something
What is a diagram?
Where is an index typically located in a nonfiction text?
Where is the back of the book?
these words are slanted
What are italics?