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This is the system to classify fiction and nonfiction texts.
Genre
Headings, the glossary, fact boxes, titles, and blurbs are known as...
Text / Print Features
True or false, then explain: Text leveling systems are a very statistically reliable and valid way to determine what texts will be difficult for your student population
False
This is how a piece of writing is organized; it can include ideas, language, as well as features that support this organization.
Text Structure
These can be photographs or drawings; they might also include graphs and tables
Illustrations
True or false, then explain: students should read mostly from texts that they can read with minimal support or instruction from adults throughout school
False
Cause and Effect
Sequence
Chronological
Problem-Solution
are examples of this kind of characteristic
Text Structure
These are big ideas or messages communicated by the writer
Themes
Using engaging, high-interest, visual, and auditory texts to help build scaffolds to understand a target text is called this in our Lewis text
quad text-set
The number, length, and complexity of these is an important part of text complexity; decoding strategies are necessary to read them with accuracy
Words
This refers to WHAT the text is about
Content
False
This refers to the kinds of words students know and are able to understand
Vocabulary
Allusions, metaphors, similes, comparisons, and transitional phrases are an example of this kind of characteristic
Language and Literary Features
This kind of leveling system was explained in the Lewis text
Lexile