Genre
Genre 2
Author's Purpose
Nonfiction Text Features
Word Reference Materials
Surprise Me!
Surprise Me Again!
100
a story with talking animals; teaches a lesson or moral
What is a fable?
100
a story about a crime that needs to be solved
What is mystery?
100
the reason why the author wrote the text
What is author's purpose?
100
used to separate the information or materials in a list
What are bullets?
100
use this reference resource to find the definition or a word
What is a dictionary?
100
the conflict, important events, and resolution
What is plot?
100
the author’s word choice
What is language?
200
a story from the past that exaggerates the life of a real person
What is a legend?
200
the characters and events are made up but could really happen
What is realistic fiction?
200
a story written to bring the reader enjoyment
What is entertain?
200
helps the reader to identify the parts of an image or picture
What are labels?
200
use this reference resource to find synonyms and antonyms for a word
What is a thesaurus?
200
a statement that is true and can be proven
What is fact?
200
words used to describe sights, sounds, smells, and tastes
What are sensory words?
300
tales to be believed as true, set in the past or another part of the world, usually has gods, inhuman, or heroic characters
What is a myth?
300
a collection of words that express an emotion or idea, sometimes with a specific meaning, sound or rhythm
What is poetry?
300
a text written to convince the reader to do or buy something
What is persuade?
300
used to show events in the order in which they happened
What is a time line?
300
use this reference resource to find more information about a specific topic; topics are in alphabetical order
What is an encyclopedia?
300
what a person believes or thinks about something
What is opinion?
300
the person or persons who are meant to read the text
What is audience?
400
the story has features not seen in this world, such as magic, time travel, strange settings and fantastic characters
What is a fantasy?
400
a story about fictional or real events
What is a narrative?
400
a text written to give the reader facts and information about a topic
What is inform?
400
organizes two or more sets of data using lines or bars
What is a graph?
400
use this reference resource to find where a place is located
What is an atlas?
400
a meaningful word part that is attached to the beginning of a root or base word (example: re-)
What is a prefix?
400
a message that can be heard by the audience (examples: music, radio, speeches)
What is auditory media?
500
a fictional story that has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth; types include fables, myths and fairy tales
What is a folktale?
500
a nonfiction text that contains facts and information
What is an informational text?
500
the author uses adjectives or gives a lot of detail about a person, place, situation, or topic
What is describe?
500
organizes two or more sets of data side-by-side in columns and rows
What is a table or chart?
500
use this reference resource to find more information about a topic on the internet
What is a web page?
500
a meaningful word part that is attached to the end of a root or base word (example: -ly)
What is a suffix?
500
a message that can be viewed by the audience (examples: television, movies, web content)
What is visual media?
600
a story including magic, talking objects and usually a conflict between good and evil
What is a fairy tale?
600
stories that take place in a certain time and place in the past
What is historical fiction?
600
a text written about how two or more people or things are alike or different
What is compare?
600
an alphabetical list of ideas that are in the book and the page number each idea is found on; this list is found in the back of the book
What is an index?
600
using two or more sources to gather information about a topic
What is research?
600
a group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem
What is a stanza?
600
a message that can be read by the audience (examples: newspapers, books, magazines, advertisements)
What is written media?