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What is Table of Contents
What is Index?
An alphabetical list in the back of the book that tells the reader where they can find information on certain topics.
What is a title?
Identifies the topic of the text and tells what the text will be about
What are Text Features?
Text Features help a reader better understand the text
What page should you turn to if you wanted to find information about polar bear paws?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Who Am I............4
Big Bears.............6
Powerful Paws.......10
What's For Dinner?....14
Bears In Town..........20
What is Page 10
What is a Subtitle?
Gives the reader more information about the topic of the text
What is the difference between a graph/chart and a table?
A graph/chart is a visual way to organize or compare data or information.
A table is a visual way to organize facts and numbers so it's easier to read and interpret.
Explain what a caption is and how it helps us as readers when looking at nonfiction text.
It explains what is shown in a picture or illustration.
It also helps the reader understand information that may or may not be in the text.
What are Textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, and web pages, text examples of???
Informational Texts
What page should you go to if you wanted to find information about what polar bears eat?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Who Am I........4
Big Bears.........6
Powerful Paws....10
Super Swimmers.....12
What's For Dinner.....14
What is page 14?
Heading
The title of the top of a page or section that helps the reader identify the main idea for the section
A visual way to explain information or show how something works.
What are Diagrams and Labels?
This text feature shows important events in chronological order or time order (sequential order).
Helps the reader better understand the order of events and how one event may lead to another.
What text feature would you use if you wanted to learn the definition of the "bubonic plague"?
A. A Chart
B. The Title
C. The Glossary
D. The Caption
C. The Glossary
What information would you find on page 13?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Who Am I.................4
Big Bears.................6
Powerful Paws..........10
Super Swimmers........12
What's For Dinner?......14
What is Super Swimmers?
A visual way to show where places or events are located.This text feature are drawings that show the basic shape of the land, and other geographical, political, or historical features.
What are Maps?
This text feature organizes large amounts of information in small spaces.
It also presents all kinds of data, from numbers and amounts, to calendars and menus.
Helps the reader also compare information in the text
What is Tables?
Important words in a text that stand out in some way. They are often written in bold or italics. Most of these words are defined in the glossary.
What are Keywords?
A student is researching how snakes grow out of their skin. Based on the headings below, which selection would provide more information for his/her research project?
A. Smelling with their tongues
B. Seeing Heat
C. Venom-A Blessing and a Curse
D. Flying Creatures
E. Changing Sizes
E. Changing Sizes
What is this specific text feature called? (Notice how the letters below look different)
We are ready for this text feature test tomorrow!
What is italics?
Why are text features important?
They help students understand nonfiction text. To provide information that may not be written in the text itself.
What is a glossary?
A page in the back of the book that gives the definitions of some of the key words related to the topics that are found in the text.
More headings that come after the main heading to break the sections of text up even more. They help identify the main idea for that section.
Subheadings
What text feature would you use if you wanted to find out what the meaning was of a word in the text you were reading?
Hint: It's usually in the back of the book and gives definitions to key words
Glossary
What text feature do you see listed below?
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What are bullet points?