Nonfiction I
Help the reader identify topics throughout the book as they skim and scan.
What are Headings or Subheadings?
Help the reader understand more about a picture or photograph.
What are Captions?
Helps the reader define words contained in the text.
What is Glossary or Dictionary?
What type of text feature is this image showing?
What is a diagram?
Helps the reader identify key topics in the book and the order they were presented.
What is Table of Contents?
Used to convince their readers to agree with a certain idea or opinion
What is persuade?
Helps the reader by signaling the word is important and/or found in the glossary.
What is Bold or Highlighted Words?
Helps the reader understand where things are in the world.
What are Maps?
Name the text feature with the red arrow.
What is caption?
An overview of the main points of a text.
What are summary?
Invites readers into the story and uses vivid details based on true events.
What is narrative nonfiction?
Slanted text that helps a reader understand the word is important.
What is Italics?
The reason an author writes.
What is author's purpose? (PIE)
Drawings that help the reader understand exactly what something looks like.
What are Illustrations?
What text structure is this?
I never brush my teeth, I have 5 cavities.
What is Cause and Effect?
Textual evidence + background knowledge
What is an inference?
Questions you an ask to determine the most important events/moments in a nonfiction text.
What are the question words:Who?What?When?Where?Why?How?
Writing/text that tells about real people, places and events.
What is Non-Fiction?
Shows the reader the order of events that something took place, usually drawn on a line showing dates or years.
What is a Timeline?
The story of someone's life, written by someone else.
What is Biography?
The story of one's life, written by that person.
What is Autobiography?
This text structure describes a topic, idea, place, person or a thing. Lists characteristics or provides examples.
What is the Description/Main idea text structure?
This text structure describes a sequence of events or steps.
What is chronological?
When you come across an unfamiliar word so you use the rest of the sentence(s) around it to help you understand the meaning.
What are context clues?
This text structure describes the similarities and differences of two or more things
What is compare/contrast?