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| Expository | serving to expound, or explain |
| Narrative | a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, can be true or fictitious |
| Non-fiction | informational text dealing with an actual, real-life subject |
| Autobiography | a history of a person's life written or told by that person |
| Biography | narrative of a person's life, a true story about a real person |
| Speech | a form of communication in spoken language, made by a speaker before an audience for a given purpose |
| Text features | tools of reading nonfiction |
| Italics | a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right |
| Headings | a title or caption of a page, chapter, etc |
| Subheadings | a sub-division of a title or heading |
| Lexile | a developmental scale for a range of reading |
| Captions | a title or explanation for a picture or illustration, esp. in a magazine |
| Map | a representation, usually on a flat surface, as of the features of an area of the earth |
| Map key | explanatory table of symbols used on a map or chart; also called a legend |
| Questioning | a problem for discussion or under discussion (4 types-Right There, In My Head, Think and Search, On My Own) |
| Inference | to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence |
| Graphics | referring to type of print, diagrams, charts, pictures, clip art, legends, graphs etc. |
| Sidebar | a generic term for an auxiliary window on screen or page that is displayed alongside the main window or page |
| Chart | a group of facts about something, set up in the form of a table |
| Graph | a pictorial device, used to illustrate relationships. |
| Organizer | visual and graphic representations of information used to teach text structure, to aid comprehension, support writing organization and planning |
| Clip art | a set of canned images used to illustrate word processing and desktop publishing documents |
