Text Features
Give an example of a text feature.
Map, heading, title, sidebar...
What is PIE?
Persuade, Inform, Entertain
What do you do to find text evidence?
Go back into the story.
What is a text feature?
Gives you more information about a text.
What is authors purpose?
The reason why the author wrote the story.
What is authors claim?
Something that the author thinks is true.
How do "headings" help the reader?
Tell us what the paragraphs below are about.
What does the I in PIE stand for? What does it mean?
Inform: the author is trying to give you information about a topic.
What claim is the author trying to make:
"Dogs are better than cats. They are better because they are loyal and like to play outside."
That dogs are better than cats because...
What does this bar graph show us?
Children's favorite color
What was the authors purpose for writing the story, "A Plan for the People"?
To inform us about voting.
What does it mean to summarize?
Telling the main idea of the story.
What is this text feature? What does it do?
Caption:tells us about the picture
Where are our benchmarks? What are they?
Authors purpose/Text features
What is the meaning of reread in this sentence?
"When taking a test, you should always reread the text to find text evidence."
Read again