Vocabulary U1W3

A ______________ is a type of text feature that gives more information on a topic, usually on the side of the page.

• sidebar

• biography

• story

• map

a type of writing that tells a story

• informative writing

• opinion writing

• narrative writing

• argumentative writing

a type of text feature that is a title of a section of a text

• caption

• sidebar

• map

• heading

the person or character telling the story

• illustrator

• narrator

• artist

• creator

a text feature that is a short piece of text, usually below a picture, that explains or describes the image

• caption

• heading

• sidebar

• timeline

describing words used in writing to help the reader visualize the text

• nouns

• verbs

• prefixes

• adjectives

parts of a text authors use to make the text easier to understand

• text structures

• text features

• narrator

• words

a group of synonyms that have different degrees of strength

• antonyms

• collective nouns

• shades of meaning

• key words

the way authors organize information in a text

• text structure

• text features

• narrative writing

• sidebar

the order of events in a story

• description

• sequence

• compare/contrast

• cause/effect