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Features that help students understand how an informational text is organized:

FEATURE PURPOSETitle page Confirms title, author’s name, and publisher

Chapter name, heading, or subheading Helps students identify main topics on a quick pass through the text

Page number Helps students with sequence of ideas and aids in using the index

Glossary Defines new and important words

Index Lists the main ideas in the text, with page numbers to help students find them

Visual aids that help students understand informational texts:

VISUAL AID PURPOSEPhoto, drawing, or illustration Shows how something in the text looked or might have looked

Features that point out important or additional information:

FEATURE PURPOSEBold print Tells students a word is new and important; sometimes a glossary term

Caption Points out what’s in a photo, a drawing, or an illustration and relates it to the informational text; often gives more information

Teaching First-Grade TEXT FEATURES Using LIVING IN RURAL COMMUNITIES

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TITLE PAGE: This is the first page of the book. It tells you what the name, or title, of the book is. It also tells you who wrote the book. This person is called the author.

TITLE: This is the title of the book. It tells you what the book is about.

AUTHOR

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A community is a placewhere people feel at home.

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PHOTOS: The photos or pictures in a book show what the words, or text, describe. Looking at photos can help you understand the meaning of the text.

PAGE NUMBERS: Page numbers are on the lower part of most pages in a book. They tell you how far along you are in the book. They also help you find information from the index.

TEXT OR MAIN TEXT: These are the words on a page that describe the main ideas of the book. Main text is usually smaller than chapter titles or headings.

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I live in a rural community.

BOLD PRINT: Words in bold print have thick, black letters. You might not know what these words mean. They are usually in a glossary, or list with meanings, at the end of the book.

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There are different kindsof rural areas:

A reservation is land set aside for Native Americans.

HEADINGS: These words separate your book into parts. Headings are usually in bigger type and are at the top of a page. A heading tells you what’s to come in that part of the book.

CAPTION: These words tell you about the picture on the page. A caption is usually close to the picture it goes with.

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Glossary

community – a place wherepeople live together and feelat homecountry – an open areaoutside of towns or cities

crops – plants the farmergrows and sells

neighbor – a person who livesnear your home

rural – far from the city, aplace with open land and few people

GLOSSARY: This is a list of important new words that you have learned by reading the book. Each glossary word is in bold letters. After the bold word is the meaning, or definition, of the word. You can find the glossary near the end of the book. DEFINITION

GLOSSARY WORD

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Index

barn – 11

country – 5, 6, 16, 17

crops – 10, 20

farming – 9, 10, 20

land – 8, 9

roads – 13

INDEX: This list at the end of a book follows the order of the alphabet. The index helps you find main ideas. The words in the index are followed by page numbers. These numbers tell you where to go in the book to find the main ideas.