Text Features
What are features like titles and headings called that help us understand a text?
Answer: What are text features?
What is the order in which events are told in a story?
Sequence
What is the most important point of a text called?
What is the main idea?
What are facts or examples that help explain the main idea called?
What are supporting details?
Who is the person or animal that the story is about?
What is a character?
Which feature in a book gives you a summary of the content?
Answer: What is the table of contents?
What structure compares two things?
What is compare and contrast?
How can you find the main idea of a paragraph?
What is looking for the topic sentence?
Why are supporting details important in a story?
What do they help the reader understand?
What do we call the main character in a story?
What is the protagonist?
What do we call the words in bold or italic that show importance?
What are emphasized words?
What do we call a structure that explains causes and effects?
What is cause and effect?
What do supporting details do for the main idea?
What are they used to explain or prove it?
What is an example of a supporting detail?
What is a fact or statistic that relates to the main idea?
What is the character that opposes the main character called?
What is the antagonist?
What type of text feature shows the meaning of a word?
What is a glossary?
What structure tells how things happen over time?
What is chronological order?
What do you call it when the main idea is not directly stated but implied?
What is an implied main idea?
How can you identify supporting details in a text?
What is by looking for information that backs up the main idea?
What do we call characters that help move the plot along?
What are supporting characters?
What feature helps you locate information quickly in a book?
What is an index?
What structure organizes information by the problem and solution?
What is problem and solution?
What is a summary of the main idea and supporting details called?
What is a summary statement?
What type of details can help create a more vivid image in a reader's mind?
What are descriptive details?
How can a character change throughout a story?
What is character development?