Text Features & Purpose
A history article includes a heading titled “Life in Colonial Towns.”
What is the purpose of this text feature?
What is to introduce the topic of the section?
A passage explains how practicing an instrument daily helps musicians improve their skills.
What is the central idea?
What is practice leads to improvement?
“I couldn’t believe what I saw when I opened the door.”
What point of view is used?
What is first-person point of view?
“The wind whispered through the trees.”
Which figurative language device is used?
What is personification?
A small, highly skilled group of people.
What is elite?
A textbook page includes a photograph of a volcano erupting with a caption explaining the event.
How does the caption help the reader?
What is it explains or clarifies the photograph?
An article begins by describing problems with plastic pollution and later explains ways people can reduce waste.
How does the central idea develop?
What is the author moves from describing the problem to presenting solutions?
“She ran through the forest, hoping no one would find her.”
What point of view is used?
What is third-person point of view?
“Sam silently slipped past the sleeping guard.”
What device is used here?
What is alliteration?
“The hikers traversed the mountain trail for hours.”
What does traversed most nearly mean?
What is traveled across?
A reader wants to quickly locate the page where a chapter about ecosystems begins.
Which feature should the reader use?
What is the table of contents?
Two articles discuss the importance of exercise.
One focuses on physical health, while the other focuses on mental health.
What is the relationship between the central ideas?
What is they share a topic but emphasize different benefits?
A narrator describes events but cannot reveal what other characters are thinking.
Which point of view is most likely being used?
What is third-person limited?
A character calls their clever friend “a real Einstein.”
What literary device is being used?
What is an allusion?
“She felt apprehension as the thunderstorm approached.”
What does apprehension mean?
What is fear or anxiety?
A science article includes a chart comparing rainfall amounts in different cities.
How does this feature contribute to the text?
What is it visually presents data so readers can compare information?
A text begins with a personal story about a failed invention and later explains how the inventor eventually succeeded.
How does this structure develop the central idea?
What is it shows how persistence can lead to success?
Two narrators describe the same argument, but each blames the other person.
How does this shift in point of view affect the reader?
What is it shows different perspectives of the same event?
“The classroom was a volcano about to erupt.”
How does this figurative language affect the passage and tone?
What is it creates a tense or chaotic tone?
“The citizens showed deference to the judge by standing respectfully as she entered.”
What does deference mean?
What is respectful submission or respect for authority?
A nonfiction article includes:
How do these features contribute to the author’s purpose?
What is they provide visual evidence that supports the information in the text?
Text A states its central idea directly in the introduction.
Text B reveals the central idea gradually through examples and stories.
What is the main difference in how the central ideas are developed?
What is one text states the idea explicitly while the other develops it indirectly?
A narrator claims to always tell the truth, yet their description of events contradicts what other characters say.
What should readers conclude?
What is the narrator may be unreliable?
A character compares their difficult journey to “Odysseus returning home.”
What does this allusion suggest?
What is the journey is long, difficult, or heroic?
“The beauty of the canyon was ineffable, leaving the visitors speechless.”
What does ineffable most nearly mean?
What is too great to be expressed in words?