Text Features
Appear in nonfiction texts, such as headings, captions, glossaries, and diagrams, that help a reader understand the main idea and important details.
What are text features?
Every author's has a purpose for writing a story or article. What is a synonym for purpose?
Reason
Ms. Robbie wants to read two stories, one fiction, one nonfiction. She then wants you to find the similarities and differences between the two. What is that called?
Comparing and Contrasting
Point of view
Words have similar and opposite meanings, what do we call them?
Example nice: kind kind: rude
Synonyms and antonyms
This is the feature that explains what a photograph or illustration shows and how it connects to the main text.
What is a caption?
If an author wrote an article about wanting to change the driving age from 16 to 18, what would be the author's purpose?
To persuade or convince
Even though nonfiction and fiction are written differently, they could share the same what?
Main idea or theme
"My friends and I got into a huge fight. I know I shouldn't have yelled at Kate, but I just got so mad."
(Bonus points for identifying the pronouns of this point of you/how you know!)
First Person
I, me, my we,
In the sentence, "The old house was decrepit; its porch was rotting and the roof had holes!" What would a synonym for decrepit be?
Weak, frail, out of shape, old
What text feature help you visually understand or make connections to the text?
A diagram, graph, map, and picture
Dr. Seuss writes books like Hop on Pop and Green Eggs and Ham. These books have silly rhymes and illustrations. What is his author's purpose?
You're reading a nonfiction and fiction text on the same topic for a project, what might be some differences in the two books?
The author's purpose will be different. One may have text features while the other doesn't.
Why is first person point of view important?
It describes the story from the characters direct point of view. The reader connects with the character.
Give an antonym for the word fragile (meaning easily broken).
Sturdy, strong, durable
Name two different purposes of boldface, italics, and underlined type in a nonfiction article.
To show that information is important and to identify key words.
You're doing a project on Mr. Beast. You need to have a section on your poster about his charity work. What kind of text should you look for to get the facts you need.
An informational article
How are chapters in novels and subheadings in an informational text similar?
They both tell the reader what the next section of the reading is about.
Explain the difference between third person limited and third person omniscient.
Even though the narrator is outside of both point of views, third person limited's narrator only knows one character's thoughts, feeling, and actions. While third person omniscient's narrator, is all knowing and has access to every character's actions, thoughts, and feelings.
If someone is unremarkable identify the prefix, root, and suffix. Then give a meaning.
Prefix - un Root - remark Suffix - able
To be uninteresting/not make an impression
How does an author's use of subheadings assist readers?
By organizing each new set of paragraphs and letting the reader know what they'll read about next.
Name 3 examples of an informational text (hint teaching you how to do something)
Recipes, instruction manual, etc
How could the scenes of a play and the stanzas (lines) of a poem be similar?
They could both express the main idea of the story in a detailed way.
x2 Points
With your group/partner, come up with a written example pf third person omniscient point of view.
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Write a sentence using the word intermission used correctly.
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