Genres
Text Features
Text organization
Author's Purpose
Random
100

This genre normally rhymes. It has a rhyme scheme and is rhythmic. The author is writing to create an emotional response. It has stanzas, and lines. 

What is Poetry? 

100
Found at the beginning of the passage. It is the name of the passage. Sometimes will tell what the passage is about. Found in all genres. 

What is a title? 

100

The author wrote the passage in order. It has a beginning, middle and an end. 

What is Chronological order or Sequence?

100
This author's purpose is common for genres like poetry, fiction, and drama. The author wants the passage to be interesting to the reader and keep the reader's attention. 

What is to Entertain? 

100

The book Shiloh was this genre of writing. 

What is Realistic Fiction? 

200

This genre is about someone's life written by someone else. It is told in chronological order and is meant to inform and entertain the reader. 

What is a Biography? 

200

This text feature is found in Informational texts. It helps you find information in the passage. It tells you about what the next section in the passage is about. 

What is a heading? 

200

This type of text organization gives lots of details about the topic. This type of text organization could be represented with a bubble map. 

What is descriptive? 

200

The author is wanting to give the reader facts about a topic. 

What is to inform? 

200

This genre has lines, scenes, and acts. It is a piece of writing meant to be acted out in front of an audience. You will find stage directions, setting, a playwright and dialogue in the script.  

What is a Drama? 

300

This genre is a made up story that could happen in real life. It is normally told in chronological order. It has setting, characters, and plot. The author writes this genre to entertain the reader. 

What is Realistic Fiction?

300

This is a darkened, thicker font, collection of letters. After this normally follows the meaning of that collection of letters. 

What is a bold word? 

300

The author is showing similarities and differences between two things. 

What is compare and contrast? 

300

The author wants to convince the reader of a belief or an opinion.  

What is to persuade? 

300

The way the author chooses to structure the text. There is description, cause and effect, problem and solution, chronological, and compare and contrast. 

What is text organization? 

400

This genre is a story that has been passed down orally through generations. It doesn't have an author but someone who adapted the story and told their version of it. You will see illustrations in this genre. It is normally written with a problem and solution. Often there are animals as characters and there are lots of 3's an 7's. 

What is a Folktale? 

400
You will find this text feature mostly in non-fiction texts. It will normally have a caption underneath it. 

What is a photo? 

400

The author wrote the passage with an issue in mind then wrote about how that issue was resolved. 

What is problem and solution? 
400
Drama, Fiction stories, Poetry and Folktales. 

What genres Entertain? 

400

The things the author includes in a passage to help us understand the text. Things like title, heading, caption, bold words, glossary, maps, photos, illustrations, and diagrams. 

What are text features? 

500
This genre has lots of facts about a topic. You will see lots of text features in this genre which could include, maps, timelines, glossary, photos, captions etc. You would choose to read this genre to learn about something or to research. 

What is Expository or Informational? 

500

This text feature is found at the back of the book. It tells you what page number you can find a specific topic on. 

What is an index? 
500

The author wrote about something that happened and how that made the next thing happen. 

What is Cause and Effect? 

500

Expository text, Biographies, and Autobiographies

What genres Inform?

500

One of the things that fiction, drama, biography, poetry and folktales have in common that non-fiction most likely does not. 

What is dialogue?