Text Features
The name of a book or chapter that tells you what it's about.
What is a title?
You do this to gain information, for enjoyment, or to learn new things.
What is reading?
A book or text that the teacher assigns for the whole class to read.
What is a class reading?
Relating something from the text to your own life or experiences.
What is a personal connection?
A book you enjoy reading the most.
What is a favorite book?
A short description that explains a picture or graphic.
What is a caption?
You do this to decide why you are reading a text before you start.
What does it mean to "establish purpose"?
This helps students learn new concepts and improve their reading skills.
What is a teacher assign reading?
We can see similarities between characters and ourselves or our situations.
How can reading relate to our lives?
It has an interesting cover, a favorite character, or a fun topic.
Name a reason you chose a book.
A list that shows the titles of chapters and their page numbers in a book.
What is a table of contents?
To enjoy it, learn a lesson, or to escape into a different world.
What is one reason to read a story?
The purpose or objective of a lesson that guides what we should learn.
What is a lesson goal?
Comparing two books that have similar themes or characters.
What is a text-to-text connection.
A category of literature, like fiction, non-fiction, or fantasy.
What is a genre?
A list of important terms and their definitions found at the end of a book.
What is a glossary?
It helps you focus on important information and understand better.
How does knowing the purpose help us?
It provides information and helps us develop critical thinking skills.
How can reading help us learn?
Relating events or themes in a text to real-world situations or issues.
What is a text-to-world connection?
You do this by reading the summary or the first few pages.
How do you decide if a book is interesting?
An alphabetical list of topics and where to find them in a book.
What is an index?
Quickly looking through a text to get the main ideas without reading everything in detail.
What is skimming?
Writing or saying the main ideas of a text in your own words.
What is summarizing?
It helps us understand and remember what we read better.
Why is it important to connect with a text?
The person who writes a book or story.
What is an author?