Nonfiction Text Features
The nonfiction text feature when important words appear darker than the words around them.
What is bold print?
What is prewriting?
Elephants can swimme in deep water and use their trunks as breathing tubes.
What is the best way to fix the sentence shown above?
a. Add a comma (,) after can.
b. Add a comma (,) after swimme.
c. Change the spelling of trunks to trunkes.
d. Change the spelling of swimme to swim.
What is d? (Change the spelling of swimme to swim.)
Is it a main idea sentence?
How donuts are made
What is no?
James is writing a report on African elephants. One heading in his report is "African Elephant Habitats." Which note below would fit with under this heading?
a. Poachers kill African elephants for their ivory.
b. African elephants live in both open and closed savanna grassland.
c. African elephants are in danger of extinction.
d. African elephants are the world's largest land animals.
What is fact b? (African elephants live in both open and closed savanna grassland.)
The nonfiction text feature where the reader can find definitions for important vocabulary words in the text.
What is the glossary?
The part of the writing process where I am improving my writing by adding details or words, removing parts that do not make sense, moving words or sentences around, and substituting (or changing) words.
What is revising?
The word that is spelling incorrectly in the sentences below:
We saw a lot of different animels. My favorite were the ducks.
What is the word animels? (Should be animals)
Is it a main idea sentence?
There are many different tools needed to build a house.
What is yes?
Which 2 facts below would likely go together in the same paragraph about Antarctica?
a. highest, driest, coldest and windiest continent on Earth
b. winter temperatures that range from −128.6 °F to −76 °F
c. several species of seals found there
d. no native animals live on land there at this time
What are facts c and d? (several species of seals found there and no native animals live on land there at this time)
The nonfiction text feature that appears below an illustration or photograph, providing more information about that image.
What is a caption?
The step in the writing process where I am starting to write my sentences and paragraphs, without worrying too much about spelling, etc.
What is drafting?
The word that is spelling incorrectly in the following sentence:
Yesterday, Tony told us he was going to eat peaches instead of applesauce becuase he wanted to try something different.
What is the word because?
Did you know that an octopus has more than one heart?
What is no?
Which fact below would not belong in a paragraph with the heading, "Hockey Equipment?"
a. chest protectors keep your torso from injury
b. hockey skates need to be regularly sharpened
c. a goalie is responsible for protecting the net from the opposing team
d. goalie equipment is very different from the equipment of other players
What is fact c? (a goalie is responsible for protecting the net from the opposing team)
The nonfiction text feature that appears before a body paragraph, to inform the reader about what they will read about in that paragraph.
What is a heading?
The part of the writing process where I check over my work to make sure my capitalization, use of words, punctuation, and spelling is as accurate as possible.
What is editing?
Which sentence in the paragraph below does not belong, because it does not support the main idea?
(1) In science, we have been learning about how seeds sprout into plants. (2) The class plated two sunflower seeds on Monday of last week. (3) We made sure the two seeds came from the same packet. (4) Each seed had its own pot, but the dirt came from the same bag of soil. (5) Our teacher said we could not take the pots out with us to recess. (6) Every day, we gave each plant the same amount of water. (7) The pots sat right next to each other in the same window of our classroom. (8) Pot A was wrapped in a heating pad that was kept turned on at all times. (9)Pot B did not have a heating pad. (10)Each day, we checked to see whether the sunflower sprout had started to grow.
What is sentence 5? (Our teacher said we could not take the pots out with us to recess.)
What is yes?
Which fact below does not belong with notes about the body of a giraffe?
a. even though it is long, a giraffe's neck cannot reach the ground
b. have four stomachs
c. able to run as fast as 35 mph
d. legs are about 6 ft tall, taller than an average human
What is fact c? (able to run as fast as 35 mph)
The nonfiction text feature that tells the page numbers where each chapter or section begins in the text.
What is the table of contents?
The step in the writing process where I have completed a clean, polished copy of my writing piece, and I am ready to share with an audience.
What is publishing?
The sentence below that is in the wrong spot.
(1) Last weekend, we took a trip to a national park to go hiking. (2) The drive took over an hour, but it went by quickly. (3) Soon, we could see beautiful mountains. (4) The leaves were changing to bright red, orange, and gold. (5) We made sure to wear fall jackets and sweaters because it was cool outside. (6) I hope we go hiking again soon. (7) My dad said the climb was a little tough and we might get warm enough to take our jackets off. (8) He was right, because I took mine off about halfway up. (9) We reached the top, and we took lots of pictures.
What is sentence 6? (I hope we go hiking again soon.)
Ella Fitzgerald was an extremely talented musican.
What is yet?
Which fact does not belong in the paragraph below about Harriet Tubman?
(1) Harriet Tubman was an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War, all while carrying a bounty on her head. (2) John Fairfield, a man from Ohio, was a conductor, too. (3) But Harriet Tubman was also a nurse, a Union spy and a women's suffrage supporter.
What is fact 2? (John Fairfield, a man from Ohio, was a conductor, too.)