Nonfiction I
Nonfiction II
Nonfiction III
Nonfiction IV
Nonfiction V
100

Help the reader identify topics throughout the book as they skim and scan.

What are Headings or Subheadings?

100

Help the reader understand a picture or photograph.

What are Captions?

100

Helps the reader define words contained in the text.

What is Glossary or Dictionary?

100

Helps the reader to justify answers. 


What is textual evidence?

100

Help the reader identify key topics in the book and the order they were presented.

What is Table of Contents?

200

Used to convince their readers to agree with a certain idea or opinion

What are persuasive techniques?

200

Helps the reader by signaling the word is important and/or found in the glossary.

What is Bold or Highlighted Words?

200

Help the reader understand where things are in the world.

What are Maps?

200

The feeling or impression the author leaves with their writing 

What is Mood?

200

A brief statement or overview of the main points of a selection.

What are summary?

300

Invites readers into the story and uses vivid details based on true events. 


What is Narrative nonfiction?

300

Slanted text that helps a reader understand the word is important.

What is Italics?

300

The reason an author writes.

What is author's purpose?

300

Drawings that help the reader understand exactly what something looks like.

What are Illustrations?

300

What text structure is this? 

I never brush my teeth, I have 5 cavities 

What is Cause and Effect?

400

Textual evidence + background knowledge

What is an inference?

400

It is a narrative told in the first person.

What is a memoir?

400

Writings that tell about real people, places and events.

What is Non-Fiction?

400

Shows the reader the order of events that something took place, usually drawn on a line showing dates or years.  

What is a Timeline?

400

The story of someone's life, written by someone else.

What is Biography?

500

The story of one's life, written by that person. 

What is Autobiography?

500

This text structure describes characteristics of something 

What is description?

500

This text structure describes a sequence of events

What is chronological?

500

Focuses on causing an emotional reaction in the audience.

What is emotional appeal?

500

This text structure describes the similarities and differences of two or more things 

What is compare/contrast?