Text Features
These help the reader know how the actors are behaving in a play.
What are stage directions?
What the story is mainly about
Main idea
The prefix -un means
Not, or the opposite
I love going to baseball games they are so much fun.
The incorrect sentence above is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
This type of figurative language uses "like" or "as" when comparing two things.
What is a simile?
A word opposite in meaning to another
What is an antonym?
A short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
The prefix re- means
What is do it again?
This is the action part of the sentence.
What is the predicate/ verb?
"It's raining cats and dogs!" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What are Idioms?
This is like a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This is the lesson or moral of the story.
What is theme?
What word has a similar meaning or close to the original word?
Synonym.
Is the following a noun or a Proper noun?
United States
What is a proper noun?
"The defense was a brick wall." is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
This text feature gives information about a picture or a photograph in the text.
What is a caption?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
These two inflected endings tell us if something is happening or it already happened.
-ing
-ed
Is the following a verb or a noun?
swimming
What is a verb?
What is the meaning of, "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
It means the person is very hungry.
Give 3 examples of text features.
picture, title, subheading, sidebar, graph, map, illustration
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
Unlike prefixes, these word parts are found at the end of words.
What are suffixes?
What is the difference between a common noun and a proper noun?
Proper noun is capitalized; proper noun is a specific name of a person place or thing
How a text is mostly organized is called...
Text Structure