Text Features
What is the most important text feature?
What is the title?
What does PIE stand for?
What is persuade, inform, and entertain?
What are the 3 things every fiction summary should contain?
What is the main characters, the big problem, and how they solve that problem?
What context clue gives you the meaning of the word right after the unknown word?
What is the definition clue?
What is Ms. Dalwadi's favorite color?
What is white?
What text feature helps the reader visualize what the passage is saying?
What is pictures?
What is the purpose of this passage?
A speech in which a student promises daily pizza rations if he is elected class president
What is persuade?
Where can you find the main idea of a nonfiction passage?
What is the title?
How do context clues help the reader?
What is they help by giving the reader a way to figure out what an unfamiliar word means?
What does Ms. Dalwadi call subheadings?
What is baby titles? ^_^
What text feature helps the reader understand the story better by putting it into sections?
What is subheadings?
What is the purpose of this passage?
A picture book about a dog that gets lost on a family vacation and has to find his way home
What is entertain?
What is the main idea of this passage?
Before you put on that skeleton costume and rove door-to-door pandering for candy, take a minute to reflect on this tradition. Halloween is believed to have come from an ancient Celtic festival dating back some 2,000 years. November 1st was the Celtic New Year and marked the end of summer to the Celts. They celebrated on its eve by wearing costumes made of animal skins and dancing around bon fires. Over the next two millennia, this primitive celebration grew to be the candy fueled costume ball that we know today.
What is Halloween?
What type of context clue is used to define "melancholy"?
A melancholy, or sadness, fell over the crowd after hearing the shocking news.
What is synonym?
When is Ms. Dalwadi's birthday?
What is April 1st?
What text feature comes with pictures to explain what is happening inside of the picture?
What is captions?
What is the purpose of this passage?
A timeline showing important events from the American Civil War
What is inform?
What is the information that supports the main idea called?
What is important details?
What is the meaning of the word "languidly"?
The girls languidly put on their jackets as if they had no energy at all.
What is without energy?
What does the title help the reader understand?
What is the main idea/topic of the passage?
What do bold, italicized, and underlined words help the reader understand in a story?
What is that it's an important word and the reader needs to know what it means?
What is the purpose of this passage?
A small book about a boy who loses his Mom’s cell phone and learns that telling the truth is the most important thing
What is entertain?
Who are the main characters in this passage?
Many years ago, there lived a feisty little monkey named Swinger. His parents named him that because he spent his day swinging from tree to tree. One day he met a flea. The flea said, “I bet I can make you fall to the ground next time you swing.”
The monkey laughed and said, “You’ve got a deal. If I win, you have to tell everybody that I’m the greatest monkey in the land.”
The flea agreed. When Swinger was in mid‐ swing he felt a bite and had a horrible itch. He let go of the vine to scratch. When he did, he fell to the ground. The flea laughed and said, “I told you I could make your fall to the ground you silly monkey,” and ran home laughing all the way.
What is the monkey and the flee?
What is the meaning of the word "familiar"?
Although the princess is familiar to those in London, she is unknown to the rest of the world.
What is known?
What are fiction stories trying to teach you?
What is a lesson about life?