Purpose
The author's purpose in non-fiction is
What is the reason the author wrote the non-fiction text?
What is informative?
This is the overall subject of a text that is normally stated in a word or two
What is the topic?
This structure provides additional details and information on a specific topic
What is description?
What is heading or title?
The acronym used to remember author's purpose
What is PIECE?
This is one thing we look at when determining the author's point of view
What is Word Choice, Tone, Quotes, or Statistics/Numbers?
This is the most important idea in a text that is normally found in either the first or last sentence of a paragraph
What is the main/central idea?
This structure tells the similarities and differences of two or more topics
What is compare and contrast?
This text feature is a picture drawn by an artist.
What is an illustration?
The I in the acronym for author's purpose stands for this
What is Inform?
Biographies, Autobiographies, Memoirs, and Diaries are examples of this form of non-fiction texts
What is Literary Nonfiction?
These are the information/facts in a text that support the main idea
What are supporting details.
This structure provides and issue and possibly solutions.
What is problem and solution?
This text feature shows what words are important/words that can be found in the glossary
What is bold print?
The P in the acronym for author's purpose stands for this
What is persuade?
Speeches, Addresses, Talks, and Interviews are examples of this form of non-fiction texts
What is Persuasive?
This is an example of a main idea
What is (any example of a main idea that you provide)?
This structure tells what happened, and possibly reasons why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
This text feature explains what a photo or illustration is about
What is a Caption?
The E's and C in the acronym for author's purpose stands for this
What is Compare, Entertain, and Express
What are subgenres?
This is an example of a topic
What is (any example you provide that is a topic)?
This structure follows the order in which events occurred, or the sequence of a process.
What is chronological?
This text feature tells what pages the reader will find certain topics on
What is an Index?