Story Elements
Resources
Text Structures
Parts of a Book
Text Features
100
a person or animal that a story is about
What is a character
100
An online resource for researching information
What is the Internet
100
A person or event that makes something happen
What is a cause
100
Section at the back of a text containing additional, related information
What is an appendix
100
A title for a chapter or section in a book
What is a heading
200
Conversation between two or more people in a narrative
What is dialogue
200
A book or set of books that gives general information about a variety of topics
What is an encyclopedia
200
Explaining similarities between things
What is comparing
200
The writer of a text
What is an author
200
Small dots that list ideas or examples related to the text that comes before them
What is bullets
300
The person telling a story or poem
What is a narrator
300
An alphabetical list of special words and terms in a book, with their meanings
What is a glossary
300
Words used to show how things look, taste, feel, smell, or sound
What is a description
300
A list of subjects in a book and the pages where they appear
What is an index
300
A statement that explains a diagram, picture, or other graphic
What is a caption
400
A type of writing that is made up or not true
What is fiction
400
A book that lists words and their definitions alphabetically
What is a dictionary
400
Explaining differences between things
What is contrasting
400
An additional piece of information printed at the bottom of a page
What is a footnote
400
A graphic organizer that arranges words in columns and rows to show information
What is a chart
500
A type of text that tells a story
What is narrative text
500
A handbook containing information of general interest
What is an almanac
500
The result of an action
What is an effect
500
A category of writing, such as fiction or nonfiction
What is genre
500
A labeled drawing that shows how something works or how it is put together
What is a diagram
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