Text Features 1
A picture of something in real life.
What is a photograph?
This is a picture of something drawn by hand or computer.
What is an illustration?
This is the first part of any informational text.
What is an introduction?
The very last or next-to-last sentence of the conclusion. Wraps things up and sends readers on their way.
What is the concluding sentence?
This is our author's purpose when they write informational text.
What is to inform?
This usually appears below a photograph or illustration.
What is a caption?
You usually see this feature if you also can see bold or italic text.
What is a glossary?
This is an interesting fact, statement, story, or quote used to hook readers in.
What is an attention grabber?
These occur at the beginning of every body paragraph and tell you what it will be about.
What are topic sentences?
This is also known as an educated guess.
What is an inference?
These words appear within the text and are used to let us know directions or vocabulary.
What are bold or italic words?
This feature is a small text box off to the side with extra information.
What is an insert?
This is the last part of any informational text.
What is a conclusion?
This is the purpose of the attention grabber.
What is to get the reader hooked/hook the reader?
This is the graphic organizer you can set up to compare and contrast two different things.
What is a Venn diagram?
A mini-dictionary just for the passage you are reading.
What is a glossary?
These features let us know that topics are changing.
What are headings and subheadings?
What are the three types of paragraphs that must be in an essay?
What is an introduction, body and conclusion.
This is kind of a reverse attention grabber--it's meant to send the readers on their way.
What is a concluding sentence?
This is what we do before we begin our first draft of anything we write.
What is brainstorming/prewriting?
This feature gives us a quick summary of the next section we are about to read.
What is a heading or subheading?
The information contained here is very short and usually slightly off-topic from the main text.
What is an insert?
This is where the majority of the details in an informational text occur.
What are the body paragraphs?
If stories have a beginning, middle, and end, informational text has an introduction, _________, and a conclusion.
What are body paragraphs?
This is the day our Unit 3 test will be on.
What is Monday?