Textual Features
Organizational Structures
Graphic Features
Resources and Paragraphs
Mixed Bag
100
What part a book is the index?
The back
100
What structure describes the cause or reason of something happening and then talks about the result.
Cause and effect
100
What is another word for drawings, photos, pictures, sketches, etc?
Illustration
100
Tells you the meaning of a word, how to pronounce it, and its part of speech.
Dictionary
100
What do people in Europe call soccer?
What is football?
200
What park of the book is the table on contents?
The beginning (front).
200
Which structure presents information in a way that makes sense to readers (it goes in order)?
Sequence
200
What graphic feature is a plan that explains something?
Diagram
200
Gives you synonyms for words.
Thesaurus
200
What color are mosquitoes attracted to the most?
Blue
300
What feature gives definitions of various words from the text?
Glossary
300
What structure tells similarities and differences between two things.
Compare and Contrast
300
What is a graphic feature?
Visual aids that are easy to recognize and give large amounts of information using little space.
300
The most imporant idea in a paragraph. It holds all the facts together.
Main idea
300
What football team won the first Super Bowl?
Green Bay Packers
400
What textual feature organizes the topics of a text in order in which they appear?
The table of Contents
400
This structure discusses a problem and ways to solve the problem.
What is problem/solution?
400
This feature is a sentence of phrase near a picture that gives general information about it.
What is a caption?
400
Multiple volumes with articles arranged alphabetically by subject; contains information on all tyes of knowledge.
Encyclopedia
400
What is the world's most expensive car?
1963 Ferrari GTO
500
What textual feature lists some of the subjects discussed in the text and the pages on which they can be found?
Index
500
This structure is when the author gives information about a specific topic.
What is description?
500
Visual aids that logically share information or data in a variety of formats: rows and columns, bars, lines, parts of a circle, etc.
Charts, graphs, and tables.
500
1. Helps prove the main idea. 2. A fact that helps to prove both the main idea and the supporting idea.
What are the Supporting Idea and Supporting Detail
500
How much does a Blue Whale's heart weigh?
1,300 pounds