Text Features
Name the purpose of a title in a text.
What is the main topic of a section?
The reason the author wrote the text.
What is author's purpose?
A text that shows how to two things are alike and different...
What is compare and contrast?
The author's main point about the topic...
What is controlling idea?
You use this punctuation mark to separate items in a list and before a conjunction in a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
A caption is usually found...
What is under a picture or photo?
An author writes an article encouraging teens to recycle more.
What is to inform?
A passage that explains an issue and then offers a way to fix it...
What is problem and solution?
Text feature that helps a reader understand the meaning of important vocabulary...
What is the glossary?
These are specific nouns like Eiffel Tower or Mrs. Greenberg always requires capital letters.
What is a proper noun?
The table of contents helps the reader...
What is locating chapters and page numbers?
A story about a funny misunderstanding between two friends written mainly to...
What is to entertain?
A science article that tells what happened and why it happened is organized...
What is cause and effect?
When an author includes ONLY information that supports their side...
What is bias?
This figurative language gives human qualities to animals, ideas, or objects.
What is personification?
Text feature that helps readers locate specific information quickly.
What is the Index?
An author includes strong opinions and emotional language...
What is to persuade?
A biography telling events in the order they happened...
What is Chronological?
To make an inference in a non-fiction text, the reader must use...
What is background knowledge and text evidence?
This organizational pattern arranges in a way that makes the MOST SENSE...
What is logical order?
Bold or Italicized words show...
What are the words the author wants to emphasize?
A serious and urgent tone usually means the author wants to do this.
What is to persuade?
A passage that groups ideas into categories or types...
What is classification?
Facts, examples, and details that support the central idea are called this.
What is a supporting idea?
This expression means something different from its literal words for example, "break the ice"
What is an idiom?