Text Features
A title for a section of a text that tells what the section is about
What is a heading?
To have the reader agree with an author's point of view
What is persuade?
It describes how two or more things are alike and different.
What is comparing?
The reason something happens
What is the cause?
Where the story takes place
What is setting?
An important word that is bold in a text
What is a key word?
To educate a reader
What is inform?
What is contrasting?
What happens as a result
What is an effect?
The people in the story
Who are characters?
A chart that shows the dates of important events during a certain time period
What is a time line?
To keep the reader interested in something
What is entertain?
Like, as, also, and both show how things are
What is alike?
This does not deal with cause and effect, but when story followings an organizational pattern in order, this is known as
What is sequence?
What is mood?
Extra information about a topic that is set apart from the rest of the text
What is a side bar?
Step by step instructions is a type of author's purpose
What is to explain?
However, but, different, and unlike show how things are
What is different?
Because, so, as, as a result, and since signal this type of text structure
What is cause and effect?
Fiction stories that are often exaggerated
What are tall tales?
A word or a sentence that tells about a picture
What is a caption?
You use this type of organizer to find author's purpose
What is a PIE Chart?
You use this type of organizer to compare and contrast
What is a Venn Diagram?
First, then, and finally signal this type of text structure
What is sequence?
Looking at this will help the reader to learn more about the characters, the story's setting, and the feeling the author creates
What are illustrations?