Non-Fiction
Text Features
Reading Strategies
Elements of Fiction
Story Arc
Figurative Language
100

Title at the head of a page or section of a book

Headings

100

Notes of explanations added to a text

Annotations

100

The main events of a play, novel, movie, etc. devised by the writer as a sequence

Plot

100

Two or more people talking in a piece of literature

Dialogue

100

Visually descriptive language, usually utilizing the five senses

Imagery

200

Bold, Italic words that reference important information such as names or concepts

Special Prints

200

Figuring out what your book/text is about

Determining Main Idea

200

Where a story takes place

Setting

200

Hints authors will give to let the reader know what will happen later in the story

Context Clues

200

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Alliteration

300

a simplified drawing showing the appearance, structure, or workings of something; a schematic representation.

Diagrams

300

Reading something quickly to note key ideas

Skimming

300

When a Character has a problem or altercation in literature with another character, nature, or group

Conflict

300

A scene that interrupts the flow of the story to show an event that happened in the past

Flashback

300

An implied or indirect reference

Allusion

400

A list of hard or unusual words found in the back of a non-fiction book

Glossary

400

Locating Key ideas in a text before reading it

Pre-Reading

400

The creation or construction of a character

Characterization

400

The feeling or the atmosphere that the author has set in their story.

Tone

400

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Personification

500

an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc., with references to the places where they occur, typically found at the end of a book.

Index

500

Hints that help readers understand the meaning of unfamiliar words in a sentence, paragraph, or passage

Context Clues

500

The use of any person, situation, or object to represent an idea of some sort

Symbolism

500

The feeling or the atmosphere that the reader gets when reading the story.

Mood

500

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Metaphor