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How well do you know Text Features?
What are text
features?
When can I use Text
Features?
How can Text
Features Help?
Where can I find Text
Features?
Understanding
Nonfiction
Text
A. Authors include text features to help the reader better understand what they have read.
B. Text features provide information that may not be written in the text itself.
C. Text features can be found in textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other forms of nonfiction text.
D. Only A and C
E. A, B, and C
1. What’s the truth about Text Features?
2. Name this Text Feature.
_______ • An alphabetical
listing of the key names, terms, events, and topics with page numbers.
• Helps to find pages that contain specific information.
A Abu Simbel, temple of,
p73
Acadia, Canada, 212-213
Acid rain, 396, c396-c397,
396-397
Animal Adaptations p1
Animal Food p2
Animal Habitats p3
Animal Homes p5
________
• A list of key terms in alphabetical order.
• Each key word is defined.
• Sometimes gives how to pronounce a word.
A Acid rain (AS ihd rayn) rain
that carries certain kind of
pollution.
Adapt (uh DAPT) to change in
order to survive in new
environments
3. Name this Text Feature.
________ • Tells the reader the
topic of the text.
• Shows the main idea of the text.
• Helps the reader by letting them know what they are about to read.
4. Name this Text Feature.
_________ • Divides the text into
sections.
• Tells the main idea of each section of text.
• Printed in large or bold type to make them stand out.
• Helps the reader to locate information in the text by telling them where to look.
Helpful Ants
Although ants are frustrating
when they get in homes, ants do
help the environment. They help
control the population of
damaging pests such as
termites.
Types of Ants
Types of ants include fire ants,
which cause a painful sting, and
carpenter ants, which damage
wood structures while nest
building. Other types of ants
include honey, pharaoh, house,
Argentine, and the thief ant.
5. Name this Text Feature.
______________
• A style and color of the text that signals how to read the content.
• Helps certain words to stand out.
• Draws the reader’s attention to important information.
The Wetlands of the South Why are the South’s wetlands
so important?
The Okefenokee (oh kuh fuh
NOH kee) Swamp is a large
wetland in the South. A
wetland is a place where the
ground is soaked with water for
at least part of the year.
6. Name this Text Feature.
_________
• Provides information in a visual way.
• Works with the words and headings to help teach material.
• Helps the reader understand an idea from the text that was unclear.
7. Name this Text Feature.
________ • Explains
what is shown in a picture or illustration.
• Helps to understand information that may or may not be in the text.
Photo by MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI
These gold coins were found on
the ocean floor!
8. Name this Text Feature.
_______ • Drawings that show the
basic shape of the land and other geographical, political, or historical features.
• Present information in a visual form.
• Helps the reader understand where an event happens.
9. Name this Text Feature.
________
• A drawing that shows or explains something.
• Helps the reader understand steps, how objects are made, or information in the text.
10. Name this Text Feature.
________ • Organizes large
amounts of information in a small space.
• Presents all kinds of data, from numbers and amounts, to calendars and menus.
• Hels the reader compare information in the text.
11. Name this Text Feature.
________ • Show important
events in chronological order or time order.
• Helps the reader better understand the order of events and how one event may have lead to another.
12. Name this Text Feature.
How well did you
do?
The Truth about Text Features
A. Authors include text features to help the reader better understand what they have read.
B. Text features provide information that may not be written in the text itself.
C. Text features can be found in textbooks, magazine articles, newspapers, reports, web pages, and other forms of nonfiction text.
D. Only A and C
E. A, B, and C
2. Index • An alphabetical
listing of the key names, terms, events, and topics with page numbers.
• help find pages that contain specific information.
A Abu Simbel, temple of,
p73
Acadia, Canada, 212-213
Acid rain, 396, c396-c397,
396-397
Animal Adaptations p1
Animal Food p2
Animal Habitats p3
Animal Homes p5
3. Glossary
• A list of key terms in alphabetical order.
• Each key word is defined.
• Sometimes gives how to pronounce a word.
A Acid rain (AS ihd rayn) rain
that carries certain kind of
pollution.
Adapt (uh DAPT) to change in
order to survive in new
environments
4. Titles • Tells the reader the
topic of the text.
• Shows the main idea of the text.
• Titles help the reader by letting them know what they are about to read.
5. Subheadings • Divides the text into
sections.
• Tells the main idea of each section of text.
• Printed in large or bold type to make them stand out.
• Subheadings help the reader to locate information in the text by telling them where to look.
Helpful Ants
Although ants are frustrating when
they get in homes, ants do help the
environment. They help control the
population of damaging pests such as
termites.
Types of Ants
Types of ants include fire ants, which
cause a painful sting, and carpenter
ants, which damage wood structures
while nest building. Other types of
ants include honey, pharaoh, house,
Argentine, and the thief ant.
6. Bold Print and Italics
• A style and color of the text that signals about how to read the content.
• Helps certain words to stand out.
• Draws the readers attention to important information.
The Wetlands of the South Why are the South’s wetlands
so important?
The Okefenokee (oh kuh fuh
NOH kee) Swamp is a large
wetland in the South. A
wetland is a place where the
ground is soaked with water for
at least part of the year.
• Provides information in a visual way.
• Works with the words and headings to help teach material.
• Helps the reader understand an idea from the text that was unclear.
7. Photographs & Illustrations
8. Captions • Explains
what is shown in a picture or illustration.
• Helps to understand information that may or may not be in the text.
Photo by MARCIN SZCZEPANSKI
These gold coins were found on
the ocean floor!
9. Maps • Drawings that show the
basic shape of the land and other geographical, political, or historical features.
• Present information in a visual form.
• Helps the reader understand where an event happens.
10. Diagrams
• A drawing that shows or explains something.
• Helps the reader understand steps, how objects are made, or information in the text.
11. Tables • Organizes large
amounts of information in a small space.
• Presents all kinds of data, from numbers and amounts, to calendars and menus.
• Hels the reader compare information in the text.
12. Time Line • Show important
events in chronological order or time order.
• Helps the reader better understand the order of events and how one event may have lead to another.
Now Let’s Apply What We Know!
You will do a close read
on 2 chapters from the
book with your partner.
You and your partner
will use text features to
teach the class about
your chapters.
Helen Keller: A Phot0biographic Story of a Life: chapter 1: A Remarkable Life
Main Ideas and Supporting Details
1.Accomplishments
a. Spoke and Read 4 Languages
b. Typed on a Braillewriter
c. Educated in an excellent university
d. Spoke out for women’s rights, unions, unfair work
practices
Helen Keller: A Phot0biographic Story of a Life: chapter 1: A Remarkable Life
Main Ideas and Supporting Details
2. Goals
a. Wanted to be accepted as no different than others
b. Wanted to show that people with disabilities could accomplish many things
Helen Keller: A Phot0biographic Story of a Life: chapter 1: A Remarkable Life
Main Ideas and Supporting Details
3. Annie Sullivan
a. Helen called her “Teacher” her whole life
b. Both Helen and Annie accepted challenges
c. Helen considered Annie her “Miracle Worker”
What Factors Forged Helen Keller’s Identity in Chapter 1?
Religion: Helen began and ended her days by
reading her Braille Bible.
This gave her strength and encouragement to
face her challenges.
Trials: Helen was blind and deaf from the
age of 19 months
The trials of being blind and deaf forced
Helen to learn differently and to challenge
herself to accomplish great things for herself
and for others with disabilities.
Text Feature Location
in Text
How Will This Help the Reader?
Photographs
p. 6
p. 8
Exemplifies Helen’s influence around the
world.
Better understand what a Braille Bible
looks like.
Quotations
p. 8
A direct quote from Helen proves that
her goal was to accomplish what had
never been done before,
Captions
p. 6
The caption explains why Helen is
dressed in clothes from India . It
further illustrates her worldly influence.
Text Features
Photographs
Real photographs of Helen
Keller at an older age help me
to visualize what it must have
been like to be blind and deaf.
These photographs also
demonstrate that Helen enjoyed
life to the fullest.
Now It’s Your Turn!
The End