ELA
Informational Text
Text Features
Nouns
Text Structure
100
The vowel teams ai, ay, and ea make this long vowel sound.

What is the long a sound?

100

Is the most important idea in a text or text part.

What is the main idea or central idea?

100

Tells the topics of the text (section).

What are headings?

100

Names a group of persons or things.  Example: family

What are Collective Nouns?

100

Puts details in time order.

What is Chronological?

200

Are punctuation marks used in pairs to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation/dialogue. 

What are quotation marks?

200

Supports the main idea with facts and examples.

What is text evidence?

200

Shows what the text describes.

What are photos?

200

Shows who owns something. 

What are Possessive Nouns?

200

Tells details about a topic to explain it.

What is Description?

300

Words like only, open, open, float have this vowel sound.

What is the long o sound?

300
Tells facts and details about a main or central idea.

What is informational text?

300

Tells what a picture shows.

What are captions?

300
Names any person, place, or thing.

What are common nouns?

300

Tells what happens and why it happens.

What is Cause and Effect?

400

 Aney, Mrs. Granados, Brewster School are examples of these types of nouns.

What are proper nouns?

400

Tells you the meaning of word and pronunciation.

What is a glossary?

400

Are words to learn and remember.

What are bold words?

400

Names a particular person, place, or thing and begin with capital letters.

What are proper nouns?

400

Explains a problem and shows how it is solved.

What is Problem and Solution?

500

Boys, girls, dogs are examples of these types of nouns.

What are plural nouns?

500

Gives us information about a topic.

What is informational text?

500

Labels something described in the text.

What are diagrams?

500

Do not follow a spelling rule to become plural.

What are irregular plural nouns.
500

Are ways of organizing ideas.

What are Text Structures?

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