Non- Fiction Text Features
This non- fiction text feature is an event or topic based on an author's personal experience
First hand account
These are used when writing a person's direct speech
Quotations
This contains a subject and a predicate
A complete sentence
Skim
The text explains the content in order
Chronological
A list of topics within a text at the beginning of a book
Table of Content
When a dialog tag comes before the speakers words _____ is used after the dialog tag
Comma
This often shows a action
Verb
We do this to the paragraphs
Number
The text has examples of the effect of something after it happened
Cause and effect
Encyclopedia, Biographies, and textbooks are all examples of ________ non fiction text features.
Secondhand Account
This is used when a sentence comes to a full stop.
Period
Every _____ has a verb
Predicate
We _______ words we do not know
Circle
Some signal words used with this text structure are issue, so that, as a result, and solve
Problem Solution
Alphabetical list of important words within the text and their meanings
Glossary
This mark is used to indicate a strong emotion
Exclamation point
This type of sentence has two or more independent clauses
Compound Sentence
Information that explains what is being shown in a paragraph or drawing.
Caption
The graphic organizer for this text structure is a web
Description
Extra and useful information in the form of a table or diagram
Chart
This joins two sentences when they are closely related
Semi-Colon
In a compound sentence, a comma and a ________ join the independent clauses
Coordinating Conjunction
Go back into the text to find
Evidence
Some signal words used to identify this text structure are yet, as well as, and although
Compare and contrast