Genres
Gives factual information about a topic.
What is a textbook?
It displays information in columns and rows.
What is a table?
The result. What happened.
What is effect?
This tells readers what a section of a text is about.
What is a heading or subheading?
It is what the article is mostly about.
What is Central Idea?
Presents a topic orally.
What is a speech?
They are often shown with bars or lines to compare or contrast statistics.
What is a graph?
The reason why something happened.
What is cause?
This quickly highlights key facts or summarizes a lot of information.
What is a bulleted list?
Words or phrases that connect ideas to show their relationships.
What are transitions?
Tells the true story of a persons life.
What is a biography?
A picture or an object that represents a real-life object.
What is a model?
A reason for writing a text, story, or article.
What is authors purpose?
An image of a real person, place, thing, or event. It helps reader visualize what is being described.
What is a photograph?
These details can include facts, reasons, examples, and other things that help you make inferences about the topic.
What are supporting details?
They provide detailed information on a specific topic. They often explain how something works or how to do something.
What are Technical Texts?
A drawing that shows parts of something or how something works.
What is a diagram?
A picture or letter that represents a word or an idea.
What is Symbol?
Explains what a photograph or other graphic feature is about.
What is a caption?
This is the author's feelings, attitude, or ideas about the subject.
What is point of view?
An article, textbook, or experiment related to a scientific concept or topic.
What is Scientific Text?
It shows the steps in a process using lines or arrows to connect the steps.
What is a flow chart?
An important word that relates to the topic. Example: variable is related to math or science.
What is Key Term?
This helps readers visualize information.
What is a graphic feature?
Educated assumptions or guesses based on evidence from the text.
What are inferences?