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Text Features
Text Structure
What structure and Feature do I choose?
How Do You Do?
Text Types
100
I am found under the title in non-fiction text.
What is the deck?
100
This text structure provides information such as facts, characterestics and atteributes about a subject; it is the most common type of organization found in text books.
What is a description or list?
100
Biography
What is chronological order with time line.
100
Preview, read the title, deck and headings to learn the main ideas, predict what it will be about, notice the special features that are included, read paying attention to any bold faced words, use the pronunciations, study the graphic aids and read the captions carefully.
What is how to read a magazine article?
100
I am a record of important events and daily happenings in a persons life.
What is a diary?
200
It indicates that I am an important vocabulary word.
What is boldfaced text?
200
This text structure presents a series of events that take place in a time order.
What is sequence?
200
A report about a country or Province.
What is a description with a map?
200
Read the title, find the symbols, look at the key, read the lables, find the scale, find the compass rose.
What is how to read a map?
200
I let you know about events that are coming up at school and in the community etc.
What is an announcement?
300
My job is to explain the graphic aid and highlight important facts.
What are captions?
300
This text structure points out the likenesses and/or differences between two or more subjects.
What is compare and contrast?
300
Article in a school newspaper about a school related issue.
What is problem and solution?
300
Read the title to learn what you are reading about, scan for sub-headings to identify the main ideas, click on the site search button to be go to other parts of the website, and look for other text features such as, photographs, links, maps, special boxes, and underlined topics.
What is how to read an online Encyclopedia Article?
300
I let you know about products and services that are available to the public from the perspective of the seller...beware of the message and the fine print!
What is an advertisement?
400
Maps, tables, charts, graphs, photographs, diagrams and timelines are all types of these in non-fiction text.
What are graphic aids?
400
This text structure attempts to explain why something happens; how facts or events lead to other facts or events.
What is cause and effect?
400
An essay about how something has changed over time, such as clothing styles.
What is compare and contrast?
400
Read the title and introduction to learn the topic, read the headings to find out the main idea, remember the bold faced words, study the graphic aids, answer to yourself the questions in the text.
What is how to read a science text book.
400
A compass rose allows you to orient me and don't forget to chech out the legend an the key to know what each symbol represents.
What is a map?
500
my job is to illustrate the text or add new information.
What are graphic aids?
500
This text structure describes a problem and presents one or more solutions to that problem.
What is problem and solution?
500
A speech about a new law or an important news event.
What is cause and effect?
500
First, read the title, find starting and ending dates, and read the lables for each date.
What is how to read a time line?
500
I am found on the internet. I am an electronic page containing information.
What is a web site?