Genre
What kind of text includes stanzas?
Poetry
What is an example of tone?
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What the author wants me, the reader, to understand is important about life.
Theme
What the author wants me, the reader, to understand is important about the topic.
Thesis
Should you use a dictionary if the question already gives you the definitions?
No! Don't waste your energy!
What kind of text tells a story with a beginning, middle, and end?
Literary
What color would this phrase be?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Yellow
Where can you find evidence for the theme?
Where can you find the thesis?
Toward the beginning of the text.
Poems that have rhyme and regular meter.
Lyrical
What kind of text gives information about a topic?
Informational
What color should you highlight plot elements in?
Orange
What is the structure of a literary text?
Narrative or beginning, middle, end or Plot structure
What structure are the following clue words for?
reason why, because, therefore, so, hence, as a result
Cause and Effect
The parts of a drama that the actors do.
Stage directions
What kind of text tells a true narrative?
Literary nonfiction
What level of the pyramid would this sentence belong to?
Ms. LeFebvre covered her ears to protect them from the excited shrieks of her students when they received their prizes for using all their strategies on the STAAR.
Yellow or Green
What is this an example of?
The students ignored the tick tock of the clock so they could concentrate on reading.
Onomatopoeia
What structure are the following clue words for?
Although, however, but, unfortunately
Compare and Contrast
What should you do if you don't understand the definition in the dictionary?
Look up those words too!
What kind of text lists steps for how to do something?
Procedural
Create your own example of Craft.
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What is the author of a play called?
Playwright
List all the text features you can think of in one minute!
title, subtitle, heading, photograph, illustration, caption, diagram, label, recipe, chart, graph
The parts of a play that the actors say.
Dialogue