plot elements
This is a person or animal in a text.
What is a character?
This text structure is also known as chronological and refers to the order of the text.
What is sequence?
This text feature helps you understand the picture or photograph above it.
What is a caption?
This is text that is made up.
What is fiction?
This is a word that means the same thing as another word.
What is a synonym?
This is the message in a story.
What is the theme or moral?
This text structure shows the similarities and differences between two topics.
What is compare/contrast?
This text feature is in the back of a book. It lists definitions for words in the text you might not know.
What is a glossary?
This is text that is NOT made up.
What is nonfiction?
This is a word that means of the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
This is the time and place where a story happens.
What is the setting?
This text structure talks about an issue and how it can be solved.
What is problem & solution?
This is one of many picture-type text features.
What is a photograph or an illustration?
This is a story that has been created by a group of people to explain something around them (often something in nature).
What is a myth?
To find a definition of a word, you would look here.
What is a dictionary or glossary
This is the main problem in a story.
What is the conflict?
This text structure gives lots of information about one topic.
What is description?
This text feature shows on what page each chapter begins.
What is the table of contents?
This is writing about a person's life.
What is a biography?
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
This is how the main problem in a story is resolved.
What is the solution?
This text structure tells about something that happened and what made it happen.
What is cause and effect?
An example of this type of text feature could be a picture of a heart with all of the parts labeled.
What is a diagram?
This is a story that began with a group of people and got passed down. Examples include fairy tales, fables, tall tales, and myths.
What is a folk tale?
These are clues around a word that give hints about its meaning.
What are context clues?