Text features
A glossary is an example of a __________
Text feature
Informational book use ______ text structures to present and explain info.
Description
A word that means the same as another word
Synonym
What should a good summary answer include?
Most important information from Beginning, Middle, and End of the passage.
The genre that presents factual or true information.
Nonfiction
Words that are written in darker and thicker font to show importance
Bold Print
A text structure that shows how two or more things are similar and/or different is called...
compare and contrast
A country imports, or brings in, products from other countries.
What does the word import mean?
To bring something in
What should I do if I don't understand the passage after the first time reading?
Read the passage again
This is the life lesson or moral of the story.
Theme
____________ are things found under pictures that tell us extra information about the image
captions
When an author is presenting a problem and possible solutions to the problem.
What is problem and solution
A word that means the opposite of another word
Antonym
What is the author's main purpose of informational text?
To inform the reader about something
What the text is mostly about with little to no detail.
Main idea
A picture or illustration with many labels
diagram
When an author is presenting events in the order that they happened...
The haberdashery had many items on sale such as hats, shoes, and shirts.
What does the word haberdashery mean?
A store where clothes are sold.
A good reader will use prior knowledge, read between the lines to understand what the author is trying to say.
Infer
Information that can be proven true
Fact
A list of chapters found at the beginning of the book is the ____________
Table of contents
There are 5 categories for text structures. Name all of them.
- Description
- Chronological/Sequence
- Compare/Contrast
- Problem/Solution
-Cause/Effect
I detest eating green peas. I absolutely hate it!
What does the word detest mean?
To dislike something intensely
The ___________ will give you a general idea of what the article will be about
Title
Words or sentences that help define unknown words
Context Clues