Text Features
Text Structures
Reading Informational Text
"About Time"
100

This text feature tells the reader the list of different chapters in the book.

Table of contents

100

This text structure gives lots of details about one topic.

Description

100

This is a strategy we use when reading informational text. (think: bookmark)

Close Read

100

This text is mostly about...

Time and clocks

200

This text features defines the key words in the text.

Glossary

200

A text structure that shows how two or more things are similar and/or different is called...

compare and contrast

200

This is what the article is "mostly about."

Main Idea

200

This clock used sand and needed to be flipped every hour.

Hourglass

300

These are found under pictures and tells the reader extra information about the image.

Captions

300

This text structure tells the reader what happened and why.

Cause and Effect

300

Numbering the paragraphs helps the reader...

Go back into the text and locate evidence.

300

This clock was a kind of sundial and was shaped like the earth.

Hemicycle

400

A picture or illustration with many labels

diagram

400

When an author is presenting events in the order that they happened...

Chronological/Sequence
400

Important vocabulary is identified this way.

Bold printed or highlighted words

400

This is what we call it when we turn the clocks ahead or back.

Daylight Savings Time

500

This text feature represents data collected and displayed visually.

Graphs

500

When an author is presenting a problem and possible solutions to the problem.

What is problem and solution

500

Informational text must be read in order.

True or false?

False

500

This is how many time zones there are around the world.

24

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