Informative Mediums
Text Features
Text Structures
Author's Purpose
Sentences
Miscellaneous
Random Weber
200
Includes a cover, title page, copyright page, page numbers, can be held, and often has chapters.
What is a book?
200
Small print found under a picture.
What is a caption?
200
Describes the similarities and differences between two items.
What is compare and contrast?
200
The author tries to convince the reader to do something or to agree with him or her
What is persuade?
200
True or False: A dependent clause has a subject and predicate.
What is true?
200
This term, we have been learning about this type of non-fiction text.
What is informational text?
200
The spelling of Mrs. Weber's first name.
What is E-R-I-N?
400
Can be found on television and includes anchors. This medium may also contain weather segments.
What is the news?
400
What is a timeline?
400
Going into detail.
What is description?
400
The author writes something for the reader's enjoyment.
What is entertain?
400
Mrs. Weber in the following sentence:
Though Mrs. Weber loves dogs, beagles are her favorite.
What is the subject?
400
The type of test you are going to take. It allows you to replace your previous test grade with the new test grade.
What is progressive?
400
The name of Mrs. Weber's child, who is currently attending GMS.
What is Mason?
600
People fear this medium is becoming obsolete with the high use of computers. These are delivered to the doorstep of customers.
What is a newspaper?
600
What is a diagram?
600
Ordered events.
What is sequence or chronological?
600
The author gives directions on how to do something or tells the steps in a process.
What is explain?
600
The italicized section of the sentence below:
ELA classes are writing an informative essay after the break.
What is prepositional phrase?
600
Each grading cycle, to avoid late points in ELA, turn work in before this.
What is the end of the progress report?
600
Mrs. Weber has 4 children. This is the number of girls and boys.
What is 2 and 2?
800
This medium contains feature stories where people compete to appear on the cover. Multiple authors and contributors make it and customers can subscribe to receive it.
What is a magazine?
800
Alphabetical list of names, places, etc. with references to places where they occur, typically found at the end of the book; not a glossary.
What is index?
800
The intended action and the resulting consequence.
What is cause and effect?
800
The author uses descriptive words (often invoking the 5 senses) and many details to tell about a topic.
What is describe?
800
The type of sentence below:
Washington state, which is Mrs. Weber's birth state, is in the northwest section of the country.
What is a complex sentence?
800
The first name of your grade level principal.
What is Danielle?
800
Mrs. Weber's husband's favorite long-running animated sitcom; her daughter was also named after a character from this show.
What is the Simpsons?
1000
Televised, in-depth, feature news story or subject matter. Provides a factual record or report. These can be short in length or hours long.
What is a documentary?
1000
In a textbook, it identifies important vocabulary words for students and gives their definitions.
What is a glossary?
1000
An issue and the resulting fix.
What is problem and solution?
1000
The author gives true, factual information about a topic.
What is inform?
1000
The type of sentence below:
Mrs. Weber, her children, and her husband enjoy spending holidays cruising and lying on the beach in the Bahamas.
What is a simple sentence?
1000
This is the place where Mrs. Weber does most of her shopping.
What is Amazon?
1000
Mrs. Weber's maiden name is McPherson. Her brother's name is Evan McPherson. This NFL team has Evan McPherson as their kicker.
Who are the Bengals?