Analyze Text Features

What are the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect?

• Textual Evidence

• Context

• Text Structure

• Analogy

When the test opinions are used to emphasize points or information within a text, it is called what?

• Textual Evidence

• Text Structure

• Evidence

• Text Feature

What is to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of?

• Evaluate

• Identify

• Synthesize

• Analyze

Things an author adds to a text to help readers understand a topic/idea (pictures, charts/graphs, subheadings, etc.)

• Text Structure

• Context Clues

• Text Features

• Connotation

Given a passage with several text features (headings, subheadings, diagrams), how would you determine the main idea of the passage?

• By reading only the headings

• By looking at the diagrams

• By reading the headings, subheadings, and analyzing the diagrams

• By ignoring the text features and reading the text only

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

Create a plan to use text features to write a report on a historical event. What steps would you include?

• Write the report without any text features

• Include a table of contents, headings, subheadings, and a timeline

• Only use pictures and diagrams

• Write the report in one long paragraph

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DOK Level 4: Extended Thinking

Things in a text that help a reader figure out the definition of an unknown word.

• Diction/Word Choice

• Connotation

• Figurative Meaning

• Context Clues

Examine something carefully and in detail.

• Evaluate

• Analyze

• Trace

• Determine

What should you look at when analyzing the structure of a piece of text?

• the genre of writing

• the author's purpose

• the types of transition word

• all of the above

What type of text structure is used in the passage?

• sequence

• compare/contrast

• cause/effect

• description