Author's purpose of nonfiction - inform, describe, explain, Description Text Structure - author describes several details of something to give the reader a mental picture, Compare/Contrast Text Structuer - author discusses similarities and differences between people, things, concepts or ideas, Order and Sequence Text Structure - author provides readers with chronological events or a list of steps in a procedure, Problem and Solution Text Structure - author gives information about a problem and explains one or more solutions, Cause and Effect Text Structure - the author describes an event or several events (cause) and the events that follow (effect), Historical Text - tell about events that happened in the past or long ago, Scientific Text - explain scientific concepts and the scientific reasoning for what happens, how it happens, and why, Technical Text - describes how to do something in steps or tells how something works in chronological order, Text Structure - the way an author chooses to organize a text, Text Feature - tools authors use to organize their text and highlight important information, Headings and Subheadings - help the author sort information into similar groups' often tell what section will be about, Diagrams - a picture with labels used to show reader parts, Glossary - defines key vocabulary words, Caption - words underneath a picture that explain what the picture is about, Table of Contents - list of topics or chapters and pages they can be found, Index - List of topics found in book and what page they can be located, Time Line - a visual way to show a sequence of events in a period of time, Verified - can be proven, Fact - a statement that can be verified, Literary Nonfiction - nonfiction text that uses a storytelling structure to present information about a topic, such as a real person or event, Biography - a factual story about a person's life written by someone else, Autobiography - a factual story a person writes about their own life,

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