Text Features
This text feature uses small labels and lines attached to a drawing to show the different parts of an object or animal.
What is a diagram?
This domain word refers to the exact boundary or area where the land meets the ocean water.
What is the coastline?
These small sentences are found directly underneath a photograph or map to explain what is shown in the image.
What is a caption?
This term describes the natural home or environment where a specific plant or animal lives and finds food, water, and shelter.
What is habitat?
Authors use this strategy at the start of non-fiction reading to preview headings, bold terms, visuals, and summary questions before reading the whole text.
What is a THIEVES map walk?
Driven by the gravitational pull of the moon, this describes the regular rising and falling of ocean water twice each day.
This technique is used to highlight important words in the text.
What is bold lettering?
This process occurs when ocean waves constantly crash against land, wearing down rocks and reshaping cliffs over time.
What is erosion?
These smaller titles help us to know what the sections of the text are about.
What are headings?
On which body of water does the village of Advocate lie?
What is the Bay of Fundy?