Text Features
Which text feature emphasizes a word or phrase in a paragraph to draw your attention to it?
What is a bolded word?
Which text structure puts ideas in their time order?
What is Sequential Order?
What is the author's main point called in a persuasive text?
What is a claim?
____ is term for sections in a poem.
What are Stanzas?
What does an author state to tell readers what the text is mostly about?
What is Central Idea?
Which text feature at the side of a page gives extra important information?
What is a sidebar?
Which text structure gives details about people, places, and events?
What is Description?
What does an author use in the text to support the claim?
What is supporting details?
____ is what the sections in narrative texts are called.
What are Paragraphs?
What do we look for in a text to back up our central idea?
What are supporting details?
Which text feature is paired with a picture, and describes what is going on in the picture?
What is a caption?
Which text structure gives an event, and what happened as a result of the event (because, therefore)?
What is Cause and Effect?
What do good persuasive texts start with in their introductions to grab their readers' interest?
What is a hook?
What is the term for the "turning point" in the story?
What is climax?
What is the central idea of this passage?
Snakes have a cool life cycle! They start as tiny eggs that hatch into baby snakes called snakelets. These snakelets are just like smaller versions of adult snakes. As they grow, they shed their skin, like putting on a new outfit. This helps them grow bigger and stronger. Once they're fully grown, adult snakes can lay eggs or give birth to live baby snakes. Then the cycle starts all over again!
What is "snakes have a fascinating life cycle?"
A Venn Diagram would best support which type of text structure?
What is Compare and Contrast?
Which text structure takes two ideas and points out similarities and differences?
What is Compare and Contrast?
Read this short claim: "School lunch should include more fruit." Give one supporting reason an author could use.
What is "fruit is healthy for students?"
What two things would an author establish in the first paragraph of a narrative text?
What are setting and characters?
What supporting details let you know the main idea of the passage?
Most cats do not like the water. But this is not true for the jaguar! Jaguars often live near water and are excellent swimmers. They will even attack their prey from the water. Many jaguars live near the Amazon river basin.
What is "jaguars are excellent swimmers," "they will attack their prey from the water," and "jaguars live near the Amazon."
A timeline of events would best support which type of text structure?
What is Sequential Order?
Which text structure points out an issue, then shows how people fixed the issue?
What is Problem and Solution?
Why does an author include his claim at the beginning of a text?
So that the readers know the author's position right away.
What is it called when the story goes back to a scene set earlier than the main story?
What is a flashback?
What is the main idea of this text?
There are many myths about centipedes that just aren’t true. Some people believe they are deadly because they can inject venom into their prey, but to a human, there is not enough poison to do much harm. Many people also believe they have 100 legs because “centi” means 100, but really they can have between 15-177 legs. Lastly, many centipedes do not have eyes, they use antennae to find their way around.
What is "there are many misunderstandings about centipedes?"