Text Features
Gives the reader an idea of what a text will be about
What is a title?
Something that you think will happen based on your background knowledge and text evidence?
What is an inference?
The name of the person who wrote a poem
What is a poet?
What is a map?
When characters are speaking
A brief sentence near a picture that tells the reader about the picture.
What is a caption?
The book we use when we do not know what a word means
What is a dictionary?
Tells the reader the different sections in a book
What is a table of contents?
When and where a story takes place
What is a setting?
Bolded words that tell you what a part of a text will be about
What is a heading?
When you make a brief summary of the paragraph.
What is paraphrasing?
What word does cat rhyme with in the following poem:
I had a cat
who was so fat
He could not even
sit on his mat
He had a hat
that did not fit
He put it on
and then split it!
What is fat, mat, hat?
Shows you when events happened
What is a timeline?
The solution or outcome of the conflict
What is a resolution?
Helps the reader see exactly what something looks like.
What you already know about something
What is background knowledge?
A word that sounds like what it is describing?
What is onomatopoeia?
Words that tell you about a specific part of a picture or illustration
The message of a story
What is a theme?
A page that tells you the definition of bolded words
What is a glossary?
Who do we not talk about?
What is Bruno?
The pattern of rhymes in a poem.
What is a rhyme scheme?
Tells the reader where they can find out about certain topics
What is an Index?
The perspective in which the story is told
What is the point of view?