Eye-Catchers
These small sentences under a picture explain exactly what is happening in the image.
What are Captions?
This text feature is a drawing that shows the parts of something, like the layers of the Earth.
What is a Diagram?
This broad category includes stories that are "fake" or come from the author’s imagination.
What is Fiction?
Authors use these to help readers "see" what something looks like if they've never seen it in person.
What are Photographs/Illustrations?
You guys get super excited when we read this type of genre, often from Storyworks. It contains a setting, a plot, and different characters to perform.
What is Drama?
This is a box of text located to the side of the main story that gives "fun facts" or extra info.
What is a Sidebar (or Text Box)?
This feature shows the order of events along a line to help you understand history.
Esta función muestra el orden de los acontecimientos a lo largo de una línea para ayudarte a comprender la historia.
What is a Timeline?
¿Qué es una línea de tiempo?
This category is for books that are "not fake" and provide information about real people, places, or things.
What is Nonfiction?
If a reader is in a hurry, they can look at these two features to get the "gist" of the page quickly.
What are Headings and Captions?
Pedro's Journal: This genre mixes real history (like Columbus’ voyage) with made-up thoughts and details.
What is Historical Fiction?
These are the "titles" of a specific section that tell you what you are about to read.
Estos son los «títulos» de una sección específica que te indican lo que estás a punto de leer.
What are Headings?
¿Qué son los encabezados?
These are used to represent data or numbers visually, making it easier to compare amounts.
What are Charts or Graphs?
The purpose of the genre is to experience rich language and emotion, which includes things like similes and onomatopoeia.
What is Poetry?
This is the overall reason authors include text features in nonfiction.
Esta es la razón general por la que los autores incluyen elementos textuales en la no ficción.
What is to help the reader understand the information better?
¿Qué sirve para ayudar al lector a comprender mejor la información?
Hatchet: This genre tells a realistic survival story about a boy stranded in the wilderness.
Hatchet: Este género narra una historia realista de supervivencia sobre un chico varado en la naturaleza.
What is Realistic Fiction?
¿Qué es la ficción realista?
This style of slanted text is often used for book titles or to show that a word is from a different language.
What are Italics?
You look at this feature to see exactly where a specific event took place or to find a location.
Consultas esta función para ver exactamente dónde tuvo lugar un evento específico o para encontrar una ubicación.
What is a Map?
¿Qué es un mapa?
In this genre, the story is "fake," but everything in it could actually happen in real life today.
What is Realistic Fiction?
Name the 3 reasons authors create a piece of writing.
Nombra las tres razones por las que los autores crean una obra escrita.
What is to Entertain, Persuade, or Inform?
¿Qué significa entretener, persuadir o informar?
From Life on Earth and Beyond: This genre gives facts and information about real topics like space and life.
What is Informational Text or Nonfiction?
These dots are used to organize a list so it is easier to read than a long sentence.
What are Bullet Points?
This is the difference between a photograph and an illustration.
What is real life vs. a drawing?
A made-up story that takes place during a real time in the past, like the Great Depression or WWII.
What is Historical Fiction?
Name the 5 text structures we have analyzed this year.
What are Chronological(Sequence), Cause/Effect, Description, Problem/Solution, and Compare/Contrast.
This is Ms. Burkle's favorite genre of ALL TIME!!!!!!
What is Historical Fiction?