Text Features
This is found at the beginning of a book and lists chapters and their page numbers.
What is a table of contents?
This is the central thought or message of a text.
What is the main idea?
This is the reason an author writes a text: to inform, entertain, or persuade
What is author's purpose?
This is the reason something happens in a story.
What is a cause?
This is what you do when you find similarities between two or more items
What is comparing?
This text feature is often found at the end of the book and gives the meanings of difficult.
What is a glossary?
These are the pieces of evidence or examples that support the main idea.
What are details?
If an author writes a book about how clouds form and change, their purpose is most likely this.
What is to inform?
This is what happens as a result of a cause.
What is an effect?
This is what you do when you find differences between two or more items.
What is contrasting?
This is a brief statement of the main points of a text.
What is a summary?
In a story about sea turtles, these would include hatchlings, nesting, and migration.
What are details?
When writing a fairy tale about a dragon, the author's purpose is likely this.
What is to entertain?
In a passage about rain causing flooding, this would be the cause.
What is rain?
In a Venn diagram, the overlapped area shows this.
What are similarities?
This text feature helps you identify important information with its bold, italic, or underlined font.
What is text formatting?
This technique is used to find out what a passage is mostly about in a short amount of time.
What is summarizing?
A text trying to convince you to recycle is focused on this purpose.
What is to persuade?
In a text, clues like 'because', 'due to', and 'resulted in' help indicate these two concepts.
What are cause and effect?
In a passage comparing cats and dogs, liking to chase things is a difference dogs might have. This is called a what?
What is a contrast?
This is a visual representation that shows relationships between ideas, often with circles or arrows.
What is a diagram?
This is often found at the end of a paragraph or passage and restates the main idea
What is a concluding sentence?
This text examines different viewpoints about a topic before coming to a conclusion.
What is an argumentative text?
This type of diagram is used to visually represent causes and their effects
What is a cause and effect chart?
When analyzing two books, what kind of chart might you use to show both similarities and differences?
What is a compare and contrast chart?