Text Features
Tells what is in the book and the page it is on?
What are Table of Contents?
Shows exactly what something looks like.
McDonald's and Taco Bell are both fast food restaurants, but one sells tacos and the other sells hamburgers. What text structure was used?
What is comparison and contrast?
What is the Author's Purpose of the text we read Winter Counts?
What is to inform?
The acronym P.I.E stands for?
What is to persuade, inform, and entertain?
Tells the reader what the section will be about.
What is a heading?
Put events in time order.
What is a timeline?
_____________ is when something is going in time order.
What is Chronological Order?
Additional information that explains, defines, or proves an idea.
What are supporting details?
To make an educated guess about something.
What is inference?
Identifies what is happening in a picture or photo.
What is a Caption?
A picture that shows the location of the subject.
What is a map?
It's purpose is to explain what happened and why it happened.
What is Cause and Effect?
A statement that tells what the passage is mainly about.
What is a main idea?
Johnny it is time for you to hit the hay.
What is an idiom?
An alphabetical list of words with page numbers.
What is an index?
This graphic feature helps the reader visualize information.
What is an illustration?
This text structure might have the signal words: affect, as a result, solution, or solve.
What is Problem and Solution?
Very end of a piece of writing, and it usually summarizes the main points of an argument or demonstrates an opinion about a topic.
What is a conclusion?
The moon smiled at me this morning.
What is personification?
Name an object or part of an object.
What is a label?
Tell what something is with a picture.
What is a Diagram?
_______________ is the same thing as following steps. (First, next, last)
What is sequential order?
A brief statement or account of the main points of something.
What is a summary?
When you read, find ways that the text is like things in your own life and other texts you have read.
What is making connections?