Reading Review

Authors use different text structures to ________________.

• give facts about their topic

• organize their ideas

• research their topic

• add visuals to their writing

Which text structure would an author use when writing about the life of baseball player Jackie Robinson?

• Compare and Contrast

• Chronological/Sequence

• Description

• Problem and Solution

Which text feature is shown?

• photograph

• diagram

• caption

• index

What text feature is this?

• table of contents

• glossary

• index

• caption

Which text structure would an author use when writing about an endangered species and how we can save it from extinction?

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• Description

• Problem and Solution

Which text structure would an author use when informing the reader about mole rats?

• Compare and Contrast

• Chronological/Sequence

• Description

• Problem and Solution

In a book about rats, the author included the following text feature.  What text feature is the arrow pointing?

• glossary

• index

• caption

• diagram

Which word or phrase is an author most likely to use when writing a compare and contrast passage?

• similarly

• for example

• as a result

• finally

What is the nonfiction genre?

• the overall topic of a book or article

• specific information that proves the overall idea

• the parts of a book or article that are not in the main body of the text

• writing based facts, information about real events, people, things, etc.

What is the BEST reason authors use text features?

• add more pages to the book or article

• to help readers better understand information

• to create nicer looking books and articles

• to show all that they know about a topic