Text Features
What is nonfiction literature?
Nonfiction literature is a text that is true.
What are the three author's purposes?
What are the definitions of ethos, pathos, and logos?
Ethos=credibility
Pathos=emotions
Logos=logic
What's the first step?
Read it!
Name three examples of nonfiction literature.
Answers vary. Some include textbooks, Newspaper articles, encyclopedias.
Chicken is much healthier than pork. Chicken has less sodium, less fat, and less calories than pork. To stay healthy, eat more chicken.
To persuade.
A dentist recommends a sensitive toothpaste.
Ethos
What does annotate mean?
To take notes.
What are three different types of text features?
Answers vary. Titles, subtitles, glossaries, etc.
Maps are used to find a location. Lines of longitude run up an down or north and south. The prime meridian is the line of longitude at 0 degrees.
To inform.
If you decide not to come home for Thanksgiving, it would break your Grandma's heart.
What do you do on the left side of the article?
Summarize each chunk.
What's one difference between fiction and nonfiction?
Answers vary. Nonfiction is true. Fiction is not. Nonfiction can be read in any order and fiction needs to be read in order.
My kite flew higher and higher. It swerved and danced among the clouds. The cool wind throughout my clothing gave me goosebumps, but I could not reel my kite in. It was having too much fun up there.
To entertain.
Those who eat chocolate are 72% happier than those who don't, so we should eat chocolate every day.
Logos
What do you do on the right side?
Take notes!
Why are text features important?
Text features are important because they give readers extra information to help us understand a text better. It also helps visual learners with charts and graphs to be able to see something.
Why is it important for us to know the author's purpose?
We can understand whether someone is trying to trick us and it helps us be a more informed reader.
Give me an example of ethos, pathos, AND logos.
Answers vary.
What are two examples of things to write on the right side?
-Ethos, Pathos, Logos
-Connections to the text
-Questions you have