Drama
Informational Text Features
Writing
Strategies
Text Structure
100

The animals or characters in a drama.

What is characters?

100

Shows the reader important words or concepts in the text.

What is bold print words?

100

Tells what the paragraph will be about.

What is the topic sentence?

100

The questions a writer will ask to write a paragraph or essay.

What are the 5 w's and 1 h?

100

Arranging information based on a timeline of events using words like first, next, then, and finally.

What is chronological order?

200

The instructions given to an actor in a play

What is stage direction?

200

Visually show you what the text is about.

What are photos?

200

Information from the text that supports your thinking.

What is text evidence?

200

Used to analyze fiction.

What is four square?

200

Highlighting the similarities and differences between two or more things.

What is compare and contrast?

300

Tells the reader what the play is about.

What is Title?

300

Describes the photo in a text.

What are captions?

300

Supports the main idea.

What are details?

300

Refers to types of writing.

What is genre?

300

Explaining how one thing leads to another.

What is cause and effect?

400

Describes where the story takes place and changes throughout the drama.

What is scene?

400

Summarizes information in the text

What is a chart?

400

This is what the text is mostly about.

What is the main idea?

400

Describes the conflict in fiction.

What is problem?

400

Outlining steps in a procedure or process in a logical order.

What is sequence?

500

The words the characters are saying in a drama.

What is dialogue?

500

Labels pieces or parts of something discussed in the text.

What is a diagram?

500

Restates the topic sentence and lets the reader know that you will not be adding any new information.

What is the concluding sentence?

500

Explains how the character fixes their problem.

What is solution?

500

Presenting a problem and then offering a possible solution.

What is problem and solution?