Text Features
Text Features are ?
Visual guides to the main idea.
What does key mean?
Central
What is textual evidence?
Proof that is in writing?
What is the central idea?
The overall main message/point the author is presenting.
What is a primary source?
First hand accounts of ideas, events, achievements.
Where is the main idea usually located?
The 1st sentence of the 1st paragraph.
What does detail mean?
A smaller piece of information.
What makes textual evidence relevant?
Proof that it is connected to the main/central idea or author's message.
What word is synonymous with central idea?
Main idea
What are secondary sources?
The summarization, analyzation, or interpretation of the primary sources.
What should you do to a passage to annotate the text when you see a text feature?
Underline it once.
What are key details?
Clues about the mean of the text.
Words or phrases that make sense of the main idea.
Name 3 of the top 10.
Study the title. Read Introductory & Concluding sentences, Locate text features. Identify Key details. Recognize paraphrasing. Determine the topic,. Identify sentences supporting key details. Look for repeated words and phrases. Analyze how ideas relate to each other(transitional words). Look for topic sentences.
How can the author convey a central idea through the text?
Through text structure
Primary Sources are evidence of our history. True or False
True
Repeated words and phrases are considered text features in a passage. How do you annotate them in the passage?
You underline them twice.
How do key details relate to the main idea?
By explaining, describing, supporting the topic to develop/expand the main idea.
What are the 4 forms of proof of textual evidence?
facts
quotes
examples
instructions
How can you determine text structure?
Examine particular details.
Use of certain words-transition words/phrases
support details
top ten clues
Secondary Sources are mostly quotes. True or false
True
List five different text features that you may find in a passage.
Title/Subtitle
Heading/subheading
bullet points/numbers/roman numerals/symbols
charts, graphics, photos, text boxes, captions, illustrations, icons, etc.
Table of Contents, glossary,
Weblinks
Name three kinds of key details.
Facts
Examples
Statements
Give me an example of textual evidence you would find in the work place?
The quote of how much a job bid would cost to build a company's new wing.
What is one way that central idea is conveyed in a text?
Describe the text structure.
Explain the organization.
Determine how the author uses the structure to indicate the central idea.
List 3 primary and secondary sources.
primary-government docs. birth certificate, driver's license, social security card.
Secondary-text book, website, lecture