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What is Table of Contents
Lists the major parts of a book along with their page numbers, outlines, the main topics or main points, and helps the reader locate information in the book and to see how its organized.
What is Index?
An alphabetical listing of the key names, terms, events and topics with page numbers.
Helps the readers find pages that contain information they are looking for.
What is a title?
Tells the reader the topic of the text, shows the main idea of the text, what they are about to read, and helps the reader focus on a topic so they can make connections between what they already know and the text.
What is 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
This text feature give you information in a visual way that is pleasing to the eye.
This also helps you to understand what something looks like.
What is Photographs?
What is the difference between a photograph and an illustration?
Photograph-an actual picture taken
Illustration-someone has designed the picture or have drawn the picture.
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 is a book that has true facts inside? Fiction or Non-Fiction?
What is non-fiction?
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?
What is the side edge of a book called?
What is the spine?
What is the outside part that protects the pages. It usually shows the title, author's name, and often has a picture or design to give you a clue about what the book is about?
What is the cover of the book?
Who writes the words in a book?
What is an author?
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?
This text feature are drawings that show the basic shape of the land, and other geographical, political, or historical features.
What are Maps?
A title at the top of a page or section to tell you what it’s about.
What is Heading?
This text feature is all over the pages of the nonfiction text/book and sometimes are bolded in color or italics which makes it stand out and draws attention to the information.
What is Text?
What is a type of story that is made up from the imagination. It is not real, and the events, characters, or places in the story are invented by the author
Fiction
Words under a picture that explain what’s happening in the picture.
Caption
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 mini dictionary that is in alphabetical order and each keyword is defined and sometimes tells you how to pronounce a word.
What is the name of the person who draws the pictures in a book?
Illustrator
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?
Glossary
Words that are darker or bigger to show they are important.
What are bold words?