Text and Graphic Features AND Text Structures Review

Text Structures Definitions

100

This text structure tells about events in the order they happened.

Chronological

200

This structure compares similarities and differences between two or more things.

Compare and Contrast

300

This structure presents an issue followed by one or more possible resolution.

Problem and Solution

400

This text structure is used to make a claim/statement and support it with details and evidence.

Proposition/Support

500

This structure explains the reason something happens and the result that follows.

Cause and Effect

Text Feature Definitions

100

An image or illustration with labels often called this.

Diagram

200

What text feature is an explanatory note inserted at the bottom of the page referring to a specific word or phrase in the text.  

footnote

300

Bold words at the beginning of a section that tells what the section will be about is called this.

Heading

400

This is an alphabetized list of terms and definitions found in the back of the book or at the end of an article. 

glossary

500

This is an alphabetical list of names and/or topics with the page numbers where each item is mentioned in the text. 

index

Name the Text Structure

100

A program in Mexico tried to get people to use less electricity. This program had mixed results. The program paid people to replace old refrigerators and air conditioners with new ones. The new machines used less power. So, the new refrigerators led to less electricity use. However, since the new air conditioners worked better than the old air conditioners, people used them more. For this reason, people actually used more electricity with the new air conditioners.

Cause and Effect

200

It takes a long time and a lot of hard work to become a veterinarian. You'll want to start by finishing high school and going on to college. During college, you might study biology, chemistry, or animal science. Then, after four years of college, you'll attend four years of veterinary school. There you will learn more about medicine and animals and how to care for them. After finishing veterinary school, you will need to pass a test called a licensing exam. Then, at last, you can work as a veterinarian.

Chronological

300

There are three main reasons why we can confidently say that adolescence is an important, distinct biological period of development in its own right, in all cultures. First, you can see behaviors that we typically associate with adolescence, such as risk-taking, self-consciousness and peer influence, in many different human cultures, not just those in the West. The second reason why we can consider adolescence a unique period of biological development is that there is also evidence of adolescent-typical behavior in non-human animals.

Enumerative

400

Different animals are good at guarding in different situations. Some people own dogs to guard their homes. Dogs can bark a warning when strangers (or mail carriers) show up. Dogs usually live well in city homes. But if you're in the country, you might prefer a donkey instead. That's especially true if you have sheep, pigs, or horses to protect. Donkeys can fight off coyotes and wolves better than many dogs. A donkey is easier to care for, too. It can just eat the grass in the pasture with the other animals.

Compare and Contrast

500

For a long time, historians faced a big issue when studying ancient Egyptian culture. No one knew how to read ancient Egyptian writing, which is called hieroglyphics. The answer to the puzzle came in 1799, when a soldier found a piece of rock called the Rosetta Stone. The Stone had a decree carved into it three times: once in hieroglyphics, once in ancient Greek, and once in another Egyptian writing system. Many people already knew how to read ancient Greek, so they used the text to figure out how to read the hieroglyphics.

Problem and Solution

Which Feature am I?

100

Which textfeature would you use if you needed to find the location of a city in the US? 

map

200

Which text feature gives more information about an image?

caption

300

Which text feature would you use if you wanted to show what an actual black bear looked like?

photograph

400

Which text feature would you use if you wanted to compare the influence of drinking in adolescent and adult mice.

graph

500

Which text feature would you use if you wanted to show important events in Phineas' life?

timeline/graph

Text Features Examples

100

How does this text feature help the reader?

It organizes information and makes the facts more visible.

200

Under which heading would you look to find information about food that astronauts eat?

Eating in Space

300

Why would the author include this sidebar in the article?

To expand on (or tell more about) information found in the text

400

What can you expect to be happening to your broken bone in week 7?

The bone will be forming a hard callus.

500

Which planet has the highest number of known moons? How many moons does it have?

Saturn; 52 (or 53)