Text Features
What do you call the text near a picture that tells you what the picture is about?
Caption
A page in the beginning of the book that lists chapters or stories with the page numbers is called the...
Table of contents
How many uses did George Washington Carver find for the peanut?
*BONUS: How or where do peanuts grow?
300
Peanuts grow underground!
What is a crop? Can you give an example?
A large planting of one kind.
What are supplies?
This tells you what the information in that section is about.
Heading
The type of story or text (example: fiction).
Genre
What jobs did George Washington Carver have when he grew up?
Teacher and Scientist
Name something that is edible.
examples: carrot, apple
Choose the best word to fill the blank:
This small box is _____than that big box.
a. heavy
b. heavies
c. heavier
d. heaviest
c. heavier
The story of a persons life written by someone else.
Biography
When text appears like this it is called:
Bold!
What genre is "The Life of George Washington Carver"?
A biography
If you earn money, what do you do?
Work for money!
Choose the best word that fits in the blank:
Some people say that the owl is the ________bird of all.
a. wise
b. wise's
c. wiser
d. wisest
d. wisest
The story of a persons life written by them.
Auto-biography
This is usually located in the back of the book and lists important words with their meanings.
Glossary
Why did George Washington Carver move a lot from age 16 to 30?
To make money for school.
Name something that would be an innovation.
Example: A flying car!
What does provide mean?
BONUS: Can you provide things that are not material?
To give someone something that they need.
Yes! Like love or advice!
This is similar to a table of contents but organized by subject.
Index
These are words that point to the different parts of a picture and labels them.
Diagram
What did George Washington Carver teach the farmers in Alabama?
Which plants would make the soil (dirt) better.
Which one is an example of a committee?
1. A woman reading alone in a library
2. A group of people working together
3. A man shopping at a food store
2. A group of people working together
Why did George Washington Carver leave IOWA to teach in Alabama?
He thought he could help there.