TEXT FEATURES
TEXT STRUCTURE
ANALOGIES
FACT/OPINION
READING LINGO
100
A picture made with a camera that helps the reader understand the text or passage.
What is a photograph?
100
Presents text in order from beginning to end or a sequence of steps.
What is sequence and order?
100
green:go as red:_________
What is stop?
100
Grasshoppers are gross.
What is an opinion?
100
The reason an author writes a passage.
What is author's purpose? PIE
200
This is a drawing that helps the reading understand the text or passage.
What is an illustration?
200
Gives detail, characteristics to help the reader visualize the information.
What is description?
200
night :day as dark:______________
What is light?
200
There are 52 weeks in a year.
What is fact?
200
To put ideas together from the passage plus what you already know (your schema) to understand what you are reading. This is sort of like inferring.
What is drawing or coming to a conclusion?
300
These are words next to or under a picture to explain what the picture is or is about.
What is a caption?
300
Show the similarities and differences of ideas or topics.
What is compare and contrast?
300
leaf:leaves as wolf:_____________
What is wolves?
300
Snakes are scary.
What is an opinion?
300
These help you figure out what words mean in a passage.
What are context clues?
400
Slanted text that brings attention to new or important word and is also used for names of books, titles, articles and artwork.
What is italic print?
400
Describes relationships between ideas or topics that shows reasons why something happens.
What is cause and effect?
400
read:study as rest:__________
What is sleep?
400
Bill's truck new truck cost 25,000.
What is fact?
400
The most important point the author wants you understand about the passage.
What is the main idea?
500
This show information in a visual way so the reading can understand (usually used to show data)?
What is graph and/or chart?
500
Presents a problem and gives way to resolve it.
What is problem and solution?
500
broccoli: vegetable as chicken:_____________
What is meat?
500
A hexagon has 6 sides.
What is a fact?
500
Words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings. to, two, too
What are homophones?
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