Types of Text Features
A picture with labels for different parts.
diagram
What is a title and where is it found?
the name of the book, on the cover
Go to page 7 of "Rain Forest Alert" and find a graph/chart. Read/study it together. What is it trying to show or tell us?
BONUS: Which month do rain forests receive the most rain?
That rain forests get more rain than a regular forest.
April
In the book, "The Power of Wind" what can we learn about the photos on page 11?
What did you read to find this information?
The other caption informs me about the large gears that generate power in windmills.
What are italics?
a type style with letters that slant to the right
The name for a label placed below or near a picture.
caption
What does a table of contents have?
chapters and page numbers
In Rain Forest Alert what two text features do you see on the bottom of page 6?
What can we learn from them?
Map and Graph
The map shows us the existing rain forests and the graph shows us the percent of species that live in rainforests.
In the book, "Bugs Beware!" there is the bolded word "terrarium" on page 33. Read me the definition of the word terrarium.
Where did you look to find it?
a glass container used for keeping plants indoors
Glossary
A graph is...
information or data as a visual image or picture
In the book, "Great Barrier Reef" go to pages 15-20. Based on the heading and subheadings on these pages, what is the main idea?
There are many things that put the reef at risk.
If I wanted to know the meaning of a bold word, where could I find that?
glossary
In "Rain Forest Alert" go to page 16-19. What is the heading and subheadings?
Heading: Rain Forest Products
Subheadings: Food, Wood, Medicine and Cures
A bold word on the top of the page that tells you what that page or section is about.
heading
What is a bold word?
a word in darker or thicker text that is often important
What is an illustration?
a drawing
What is the name of the section at the back of a nonfiction book that has topics and page numbers?
index
On pages 16-19 in Rain Forest Alert, what can we infer is the main idea based on reading the heading and subheadings?
Medicine, food and wood are popular rain forest products.
There are three important rain forest products.
In the book, "Bugs Beware!" what pages would I find information about the Venus Flytrap?
What text feature did you use to find that info?
2,4,5,7, 10-15, 32-37
Index
A list of important events arranged in the order in which they happened, includes dates
timeline
A drawing of part of the earth's surface that shows where specific locations or features are.
map
Find the book called, "Rain Forest Alert" and open up to the table of contents. What page might the reader find information on the reason rainforests are being destroyed or cut down?
Page 26
In the book, "The Power of Wind" which text feature do you see on page 8?
What can we learn from it?
Diagram with lables
It tells us the parts of a windsurfer.
A bold word under the heading that tells what a smaller section will be about.
subheading
In the book, "The Great Barrier Reef" what can you learn from the text box on page 19?
Do we need text boxes?
1,600 ships have wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef.
No we do not. Just extra facts!