Nonfiction Signposts

The author shows a difference between what you know about a topic and what happens in the text

• Extreme & Absolute Language

• Quoted Words

• Contrasts & Contradictions

• Word Gaps

The author uses numbers, specific number words or amounts

• Quoted Words

• Word Gaps

• Extreme & Absolute Language

• Numbers & Statistics

The author uses numbers, specific number words or amounts

• Quoted Words

• Word Gaps

• Extreme & Absolute Language

• Numbers & Statistics

The author uses a word or phrase you don’t know (expert language).

• Extreme & Absolute Language

• Word Gaps

• Quoted Words

• Contrasts & Contradictions

The author uses language that leaves no doubt, exaggerates, or pushes the limit.

• Numbers & Statistics

• Quoted Words

• Word Gaps

• Extreme & Absolute Language

What are nonfiction signposts?

• Posts that an author accidentally leaves in a text.

• Moments in a book that make the reader think.

• Noticeable points in a text that stand out as significant.

• Parts of a text that may confuse the reader.

"Animal rights groups gathered 180,000 signatures for a petition." This is an example of:

• Quoted Words

• Extreme & Absolute Language

• Word Gaps

• Numbers & Statistics

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear," said MLK. This is:

• Word Gaps

• Extreme & Absolute Language

• Contrasts & Contradictions

• Quoted Words

"Astronauts' vision becomes entirely blurry after too much time in space." This is:

• Contrasts & Contradictions

• Numbers & Statistics

• Quoted Words

• Extreme & Absolute Language

For nonfiction, all of the following are Big Questions except

• What surprised me?

• What is the main idea?

• What did the author already think I knew?

• What challenged, changed or confirmed what I already knew?