Text Features
Main Idea
Text Evidence
Context Clues
100
Where you look to find page numbers where different topics start.
What is table of contents?
100
It is often said that lightening never strikes twice in the same place, but this isn't true. Go ask forest rangers. Rangers who spend their summers as fire-fighters will tell you that every thundershower brings several bolts of lightning to their lookout stations. Name the main idea.
What is it is often said that lightening never strikes twice in the same place?
100

Definition for text evidence

What is something we use to back up our answers from a story?

100

Definition of context clues

What is a strategy to help find the definition of a word?

200
The writing underneath a photograph that gives you more information about the picture.
What is a caption?
200
Costs were low this year and the output is high. There was a good person for each job and the market remained firm. There was no losses from the fire. All in all it was the best years in the history of the company. Name the main idea.
What is it was the best years in the history of the company?
200

Definition of explicit details.

What are details directly from the text?

200

Name some ways we use context clues.

What is synonym, antonym, definition, or examples?

300
Like a dictionary, usually found in the back of the book.
What is a glossary?
300
There are great numbers of deer around here. This whole area is great country for hunters and fisherman? There are bears, mountain lions and coyotes. To the east there are streams full of trout and there are ducks and geese. Name the main idea.
What is this whole area is great country for hunters and fishermen?
300

Definition of implicit details (inferences)

What is an educated guess using text evidence?

300

It was an idyllic day-the sun was warm, the birds were singing, and the view looked like it could be from a picture.

What is beautiful, pretty, or picturesque?