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Types of text
What is genre?
Used when reciting a part of the text in writing
What are quotation marks?
Using knowledge and clues about something to make a conclusion
What is an inference?
Type of genre that is also called literary
What is fiction?
Type of genre that is also called informational
What is non-fiction?
Authors purpose is to entertain
What is Literary?
Authors purpose is to inform
What is informational?
Photographs, graphs, diagraphs, sidebars
What are visuals?
The main events of a text
What is plot?
Has a beginning, middle, and end
What is linear text structure?
Characters, setting, plot, illustrations
Stating what goes wrong and how it is fixed. Contains words like conflict, resolution
What is the problem/solution text structure?
Headings, subheadings, visuals
What is informational text characteristics?
When the story ends the same way it started
What is circular text structure?
It flashes back and forth in time
What is non-linear text structure?
The message or lesson you learn from the story
What is theme?
Who's telling the story
What is a narrator?
The central point the author wants the reader to know
What is main idea?
Read the sentence the word is in, the sentence before, and the sentence after
What is context clues?
Literary text structures
What are linear, non-linear, and circular?
Visuals, captions, bold words, headings
What are text features?
The way the author organizes information in a text
What are text structures?
What the author wants the reader to learn from the story
What is central message?
Informational text structures
What is descriptive, sequence, chronological, problem/solution, comparison, and cause/effect?
Important pieces of information that support the main idea
What is key details?