Text Features
Text Structures
Grammar
Central Idea
Miscellaneous
100
A chart that shows where certain places are located.
What is a map?
100
Which text structure uses these key words?
first, next, then, before, after, finally, following, dates, and times
What is Sequence?
100
Proper Noun for a teacher.
Who is Mrs. Beers or Mrs. Cossins
100
What is the main idea of this passage?
a. Pen pals make each other's worlds a little bigger.
b. It's exciting to get letters in the mail.
c. Pen pals tell each other about special places.
a. Pen pals make each other's worlds a little bigger.
100
This is a drawing that shows the parts of something.
What is a diagram?
200
The place to find where certain chapters are in a book.
What is a table of contents?
200
This text structure is when the author explains a topic, person, place, or thing by listing characteristics, examples, or features.
What is description?
200
Proper noun for a place.
What is Walmart, New York, Harrisburg Elementary, etc.?
200
What is the main idea in this passage?
a. A female kangaroo has a special pouch for the baby.
b. A baby kangaroo stays in its mother's pouch until it's strong enough to live on its own.
c. At 10 months the baby is ready to leave the pouch.
b. A baby kangaroo stays in its mother's pouch until it's strong enough to live on its own.
200
Determine the type of sentence:
The boy walked home.
What is a declarative sentence?
300
The words in the back of the book where you can find definitions for a word.
What is a glossary?
300
This text structure uses these key words:
problem is, question is, puzzle is, to solve this, and one answer is
What is problem and solution?
300
Plural noun for the word knife.
What is knives?
300
What is the main idea in this passage?
a. When you exercise you lower your chances of getting sick.
b. Exercise helps people feel better in many ways.
c. Exercise can help you sleep at night.
b. Exercise helps people feel better in many ways.
300
This calls attention to new and important words.
What is bold print?
400
The information that describes what is happening in a picture.
What is a caption?
400
Willow Creek is very different from New York City. There are no tall skyscrapers in Willow Creek. All you can see are fields and sky. Instead of taxicab horns and fire truck sirens, it is so quiet at night that you can hear the crickets chirping. The MAIN text structure used in this paragraph is . . .
What is compare and contrast?
400
Plural noun for the word deer.
What is deer?
400
What is the main idea in this passage?
a. Bats sleep in many different kinds of places during the day.
b. Bats have daytime resting places.
c. Bats sleep in caves upside down.
a. Bats sleep in many different kinds of places during the day.
400
What is a supporting detail?
Supporting details are details that tell you more about the main idea.
500
Added information related to a topic, usually located on the side of the page.
What is a sidebar?
500
Every spring, shortly after the tulips bloom, farmers in Holland go through the tulip fields and cut the blooms off the tulips. This seems strange, because it leaves a field full of green stems. However, it makes the colorful tulip blooms grow back even bigger and stronger later that spring. The MAIN text structure used in this paragraph is . . .
What is cause and effect?
500
Determine the type of sentence:
Do your homework!
What is an imperative sentence?
500
What is the main idea in this passage?
a. Life would be different without gravity.
b. Without gravity, the Earth might float away.
c. If you jumped you would fly off into space.
a. Life would be different without gravity.
500
Joey lost his science book. He knew he would be in big trouble if he was unable to study for the final. What should he do? He thought for a few worried moments, and then decided to retrace his steps. He remembered putting the book in his backpack that morning. He had taken it out at school when his friend Kim asked to look something up. Now he remembered - Kim still had his book! The MAIN text structure used in this paragraph is . . .
What is problem and solution?