Text Features-why
This text feature is used to let us know what the whole article is about.
What is the title?
This text structure situations and ways to solve it?
What is Problem & Solutions?
This is the topic or subject of an artice or paragraph.
What is main/central idea?
This point of view is from a character in the story's perspective and the pronouns used would be "I", "Me", "We".
What is first person point of view?
What is the central argument or position that the author takes when writing an article.
What is author's claim?
The author uses these in the text to inform the reader of important words that the author wants the reader to learn and define.
What are bold words?
This text structure provides a situation and explains why it happened.
What is cause and effect?
These are the evidence that support the main idea.
What are the key details?
This point of view is told by a narrator or person outside the story or situation.
What is third person point of view?
This is the support or proof that you have to support your claim. It can come in the form of a fact, observation, or quotes from an expert.
What is evidence?
This text feature is found under a picture to explain what the picture is about.
What is caption?
Text structure signal words: Because, as a result, therefore, consequently
What are some signal words for cause and effect?
what is the central idea of this paragraph?
Hurricanes form over the warm ocean water of the tropics. When warm moist air over the water rises, it is replaced by cooler air. The cooler air will then warm and start to rise. This cycle causes huge storm clouds to form. These storm clouds will begin to rotate with the spin of the Earth forming an organized system. If there is enough warm water, the cycle will continue and the storm clouds and wind speeds will grow causing a hurricane to form.
What is "How a hurricane is formed?"
The reasons an author writes?
What is to persuade, to inform, to entertain?
This is the part that supports the evidence for the claim. It connects the evidence to the claim with scientific concepts or principles.
What is reasoning?
This text feature is used to store extra information that is important but doesn't "fit" in the rest of the article.
What is a sidebar?
Text structure signal words: answer, issue, prevention, remedy
What are problem & solution signal words?
what is the central idea of this passage?
When hurricanes strike land they can cause huge amounts of damage. Most of the damage is caused by flooding and storm surge. Storm surge is when the ocean level rises at the coastline due to the power of the storm. Hurricanes also cause damage with high speed winds that can blow down trees and damage homes. Many hurricanes can develop several small tornados as well.
What is "why are hurricanes dangerous?"
Refers to the unique stance, opinions, and biases an author holds, which shape how they present information or tell a story.
What is the author's perspective?
The purpose of an argumentative text is to do these three things.
Explain the differnce between a table of contents and an index and where they are located.
What is a table of contents is located in the front of a book and gives a listing of all the chapers in the book and the order in which they appear. And an index is an alphabetical listing of the topics and what page they appear on in the book and is located in the back of the book.
Explain the difference between problem and solution with cause and effect.
What is a problem & solution states a problem/issue and gives several solutions/answers. Cause & effect gives a situation and why it happened.
Explain the difference between implicit and explicit central idea?
What is an implict central ideas are not directly stated in the text but rather inferred. Where explicit are stated and clear.
These are the different types of perspectives an author can have when writing an informational article.
What is positive, negative, or neurtal.
What is in an informational/expository text the author just gives you information about a topic and the author's purpose is to inform but in an argumentative text the author is trying to convince, persuade, or change your mind about a topic based on reasoning and evidence?