Text Features
A phrase that come before a body of text and labels what the text is going to be about
What is a Heading?
The author writes about how two things are similar and different
What is Compare and Contrast?
Who the text is about
What is Character?
What is Explain?
What the text is mostly about
What is Main/Central Idea?
Page at the beginning of a text that lists headings and page numbers
What is a Table of Contents?
Explains why something happens and what happens as a result
What is Cause and Effect?
The person telling the storying
What is a Narrator?
The author wants to give the reader information
What is Inform?
The heart of the story
What is Theme?
Words under a picture that describe what is happening
A struggle that is typically the focus of the story and how it is resolved
The problem or struggle in a story
What is Conflict?
The author wants the reader to be amused or enjoy reading
What is Entertain?
A simple drawing that labels the different parts of a thing
What is a Diagram?
Putting events in the order that they occured
What is Sequence?
The author wants the reader to experience something; they use a lot of imagery
What is Describe?
When words look like this the author is using:
What is Italics?
Putting events in the order of the date or time they happened
What is Chronology?
To convince the reader of something; to make them believe
What is Persuade?
The conclusions we draw based on our background knowledge and the text clues
What is an Inference?