Text Features
This helps me find the topic of my reading.
What is the Title?
This tells you how things are different.
What is to contrast?
This is what words with the same meaning are called.
What is a synonym?
Poems are divided into these sections.
What are stanzas?
This information can be proven to be true.
What is a fact?
This tells what the section of text is about.
What is a heading, subheading or section?
This tells you how things are alike.
What is to compare?
This goes before your root word (re, un, and dis are examples).
What is a prefix?
I write poems.
Who is a poet?
These give more information and support the main idea.
What are details or key details?
This appears underneath a picture and tells you what the image is about.
What is a caption?
This is the order of events in which things happen.
What is sequence of events?
This part of speech shows action.
What is a verb?
What type of story is performed by actors in-front of an audience?
What is a play or a drama?
These are the clues the author may include to help you figure out the meaning of unknown words. (Ex: Definition, example, antonym, synonym and inference.)
What are context clues?
This is a short paragraph next to an article that gives you more interesting facts about a topic.
What is sidebar?
Because, so, since and therefore are signal words for this text structure.
What is cause and effect?
This names a specific person, place or thing.
What is a proper noun?
This is the person who tells the story.
What is a speaker or narrator?
What is the central message, theme or moral?
This is a feature in online articles. When selected, it takes you to another web page.
What is a hyperlink?
Author's use this to explain WHAT happened and WHY it happened.
What is cause and effect?
This almost always ends in "ly" and describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
This is what happens to your story from chapter to chapter.
What is the story builds?
This is the most important thing the author wants you to understand.
What is the main idea of the passage?