Visual Text Clues

Visual Text Clues

Authors choose things like punctuation very carefully to help convey their meaning.

Readers need to use these clues to understand what they are reading.

Multiple Choice

A period, question mark, or exclamation point means I need to

• pause

• stop

Multiple Choice

The punctuation mark ... is called

• dot dot dot

• ellipsis

• three periods

Multiple Choice

When - has a space on both sides, it's called a

• dash

• hyphen

Multiple Choice

When - is in between two words, like half-minute, it's called a

• dash

• hyphen

Multiple Choice

A comma, semicolon, colon, ellipsis, or dash mean that the reader needs to

• pause

• stop

Multiple Choice

This style of writing shows the text is:

Important

Thinking

Accent the word

Title of a book or movie

A different language

• bold

• italics

• underlined

Multiple Choice

This style of writing shows that the text is:

Important

Accent the word

Speak louder

• bold

• italics

• underlined

Multiple Choice

WHEN THE AUTHOR WRITES IN ALL CAPITALS, IT MEANS

• NOTHING.

• SHOUTING.

• TALKING.

• WHISPERING.