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9th grade · English Language Arts · Unit 5 of 12

Forms & Features

Text patterns, visuals and media

What your child practices

Knowing what each text form does, how features such as an index, footnote or caption help readers, how signal words show a text's pattern, and how images, color and design shape meaning.

Oregon State Standards learning standard: ELA.9-10.RI.5; ELA.9-10.RI.7 · text patterns, visuals and media features

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which feature of a nonfiction book helps readers find a topic quickly?

    • The cover blurb
    • The copyright page
    • The dedication
    • The index

  2. Question 2

    Which text form is mainly written to persuade readers to agree with an opinion?

    • An editorial
    • A glossary
    • A table of contents
    • A weather report

  3. Question 3

    Which statement about cultural text forms is accurate?

    • Songs and art are never text forms
    • Some communities share knowledge through spoken stories, songs and art, and these are valid texts
    • Oral stories cannot be analyzed
    • Only printed books count as real texts

  4. Question 4

    Which feature is typical of an expository essay?

    • Stage directions
    • A thesis statement supported by evidence
    • Dialogue between characters
    • Rhyming couplets

  5. Question 5

    A scene is told in letters between two characters. What is this text form called?

    • a script
    • an editorial
    • an epistolary text
    • an index

  6. Question 6

    Which pair of signal words shows a cause and effect pattern?

    • first, next
    • similarly, however
    • because, as a result
    • on the other hand, in contrast

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