Nonfiction Practice

Look at the image.  Is this a text structure or a text feature?

• Text stucture
• Text Feature

What type of text of text feature is this? 

• diagram
• caption
• map

As the ship was sinking I could feel the icy wind of the ocean.  So many people were not able to get on the life boats.  I was scared but held on tight to my mother's hand.  Hopefully, I would survive the Titanic sinking.  

• firsthand account
• thirdhand account
• secondhand account
• primary account

The Oregon Trail
In 1843, thousands of people began traveling across America to the open lands of the West. Most of these people followed a path known as the Oregon Trail. Pioneers set out from towns along the Missouri River in the Midwest. They made a 2,000-mile trek to their new homes in California and Oregon. Some traveled in covered wagons. Others were on foot or horseback. The route was filled with danger and hardship.

• firsthand account
• secondhand account
• thirdhand account
• primary account

August 1st we nooned in a beautiful grove on the north side of the Platte [River]. We had by this time got used to climbing in and out of the wagon when in motion. When performing this feat that afternoon, my dress caught on an axle helve. I was thrown under the wagon wheel, which passed over and badly crushed my leg before my father could stop the team. He picked me up and saw the extent of the injury … The news soon spread along the train and a halt was called. A surgeon was found and the limb set …

• firsthand account
• secondhand account
• thirdhand account
• primary account

Name the text structure that has words like, first, next, then or dates in a time line order.

• Compare and contrast
• Cause and effect
• Sequence
• Problem and Solution

An article that tells you about global warming and how we as citizens can help to end it, would be what type of text structure?

• Compare and contrast
• Problem and solution
• Sequence
• Cause and effect

What type of figurative language is this?
His skin was as slimy as a snake.

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopeia
• hyperboe

I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole
• onomatopiea

The accident happened at 3:00 in the afternoon.  A student threw a snow ball at Mr. Terput and he is now in the hospital.

• secondhand account
• firsthand account
• thirdhand account
• primary source