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This NF text feature lists the headings in your text and the page number it is on.
What is Table of Contents?
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This NF text feature tells the focus of an entire NF text.
What is a Title?
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This NF text feature tells the focus of a large section of text and is found at the top of a page.
What is a Heading?
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This NF text feature tells the specific focus of a small section (a few paragraphs) of the text.
What is a sub-heading?
100
This NF text feature tells the reader more about the topic they are about to read.
What is a sub-title?
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This NF text feature supports the reader by providing a visual image for the topic that is being discussed. This is usually proof that the topic is real.
What is a photograph?
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This NF text feature explains an image that is in the text. It usually gives more information; telling the reader what is occurring, or naming what it is that the reader sees.
What is a caption?
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This NF text feature can also be a visual representation, but is not an image. It can show information in a pie chart, a table or even a picture that is labeled by it's parts.
What are charts, graphs and diagrams?
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This NF text feature lists events chronologically.
What is a timeline?
200
This NF text feature is an alphabetical list of academic words discussed in the text. It also tells the page number(s) you will find it on.
What is an Index?
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This NF text feature is usually found in a box within an article. It provides more information about the whole topic, but may not be focused on the heading. It may contain information about the history of the topic, ways you can help, resources to learn more or even fun facts about the topic!
What is an information box?
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This NF text feature gives the definitions of bolded and important words.
What is a glossary?
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This NF text feature is academic vocabulary, whose meaning can be found towards the end of a book or bottom of an article.
What are bolded words?
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This NF text feature helps you sound out names of foreign or unfamiliar names or people and places or difficult words.
What is pronunciation?
300
This NF text feature is a visual representation of information, usually telling you the location of events or items in the text.
What is a map?
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When reading a map, it is important to look at these features to fully understand what you are looking at.
What are map keys, legends, map heading and compass rose?
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Before reading a new NF text, a good reader looks at these to fill out things they think they know, and want to learn.
What is the heading, title, table of contents and pictures?
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A good reader fills out this part of their KWL WHILE they are reading their text.
What is the L (Learned)?
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A good reader knows the difference between asking a question that a person can answer with a "yes" or "no" and a question that will require better information.
What is the difference between a great (open-ended) and a poor (closed-ended) question?
400
The country Ecuador is located near this.
What is the equator?
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This word is when a group of people are working together, having to take turns, assign jobs and be respectful of others's ideas.
What is collaboration?
500
A heading is usually found where in a text?
What is the top of the page?
500
Mr. Bachmann has encountered these two animals in the wild.
What is a bear and a moose?
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These are the characters we have met so far in Elsewhere.
Who are Olive, Mr. & Mrs. Dunwoody, Horatio, Leopold & Annabelle?
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If you wanted to learn more information about bears & moose, it would be good to look for a book focused on these topics.
What is Mammals OR animals in Colorado OR Mountain Animals?
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