Reading
Non-Fiction Text Features
Division
Narrative
Social Studies
100

Learning through facts

Non-fiction

100

a drawing or sketch that explains or shows part of something

diagram

100

There are five people playing dreidel. They each take the same number of gelt from the pile of 50. How many did each take?

Ten 

100

When two characters talk 

Dialogue

100

Name two Native American tribes

Inuit, Sioux, Seminole, Cherokee, Iriqouis, Tlingit

200

Reading from learning through imagination

Fiction

200

Tells about the topics in the book and it shows what page to find information

Table of Contents

200

There are 6 boxes. Each has 8 erasers. How many erasers are there all together?

48 erasers

200

The place where the story takes place

Setting

200

The line of latitude across the Earth

The Equator

300
Things that goes at the end of a sentence

Punctuation mark like period, exclamation mark, or question mark

300

Shows the reader something really looks like

Photographs

300

Lin has 36 sticky notes. She placed 6 sticky notes on each notebook. How many notebooks received sticky notes?

6 notebooks

300

Things happen

Plot

300

The line of Longitude in the middle, through Greenwich England

The Prime Meridian

400

The idea from the text that uses supporting details

Main Idea

400

A symbol used to make a list

Boxes and Bullets

400

There are 24 eggs in a container. There are 6 in each row. How many rows are there?

4 rows

400

The people in the story

Characters

400

Name a major river in the USA

Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Rio Grande, St. Lawrence

500

A fiction genre that relates to history

Historical fiction

500

An alphabetical list of keywords from the text

Index

500

There are 35 books on the bookcase. There are 7 books on each shelf. How many shelves are there?

5 shelves

500

When something is real but still made up

Realistic Fiction

500

What direction does the compass magnet point to?

north