TEXT FEATURES
Tells what a section is mostly about
What is "Heading"
A text structure showing the order in which events take place.
What is "Chronology"
Word part added to the beginning of a word.
What is "Prefixes"
Characteristics of a sentence.
What is "It must express a complete thought, begin with a capital letter, have a subject and a predicate, and end with a punctuation mark."
What is the purpose of Rereading?
What is "To help you understand the information being read" or "To help clarify what you are reading"
Shows us where the places we read about are located.
What is "a map"
The most important point an author makes about a topic.
What is "the Central or Main Idea"
What is the prefix for the word "unsure"?
What is "un"
What is the subject and the predicate for the following sentence?
The red boat sprung a leak.
What is "The red boat = subject; sprung a leak = predicate"
What is a fact?
What is "a statement that can be proven true with evidence."
Shows the results of data making it easy for readers to see and better understand information. Helps you UNDERSTAND AND COMPARE NUMBERS and INFORMARTION in a quick and easy way.
Something an author states to be true due to his/her strong opinion
What is "Author's Claim"
Two smaller words joined together.
What is "compound word"
Combine the following two sentences by adding the correct conjunction that allows a choice (punctuation matters).
We can play outside before dinner.
We can color.
What is "We can play outside before dinner, or we can color.
What is an opinion?
What is "statements that express someone's attitude, belief, or feeling about something and cannot be proven true."
Text found near an illustration/photograph that provides the reader with important information about the illustration or photograph.
What is "a caption"
The way a character feels or thinks about something
What is "Character's Perspective
Words that have more than one meaning.
What is "multiple meaning words"
Identify all the common and proper nouns in the following sentence.
Sasha bought a large pumpkin at the Jacksonville Fall Festival.
What is "Sasha = proper noun; pumpkin = common; Jacksonville Fall Festival = proper noun"
Tells more information about the topic and supports the central or main idea.
What is "Relevant Details"
Information located on one of the sides of the main article (text) which provides more information related to the topic.
What is "a sidebar"
Name at least 3 chronology signal WORDS used by authors.
What is "First, next, then, soon, and finally"
Clues that good readers use to figure out the meaning of unknown words.
What is "Context Clues"
What corrections need to be made to the following sentence?
why didn't you blow out all three candle.
What is "Why didn't you blow out all three candles?"
A character CHANGES throughout a story due to a series of events.
what is "Character Development"