Text Features

Super Croc

Text Features

What text features do you see here?

Why did the author include them?

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What text features did you see? Check off ALL the text features that apply!

• Picture

• Title

• Headings

• diagram

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Why did the author include these text features?

• To help the reader visualize the topic they are learning about

• To help the reader understand important information

• To list out the meaning of difficult words

• To explain the parts of a picture so that the reader understands what they are looking at

What are the text features that you see here?

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What text features did you see? Check off ALL the text features that apply!

• Caption

• Glossary

• Bold words

• Map

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Why did the author include the map of Africa?

• To help the reader understand the lush environment the supercrocs lived in

• To show the reader the path the paleontologist traveled

• To show where the paleontologists were searching for fossils

• To show the readers the where you can find a Supercroc today

Footnotes

The numbers on the side of the words Gadoufaoua and Niger are called footnotes. On the bottom of the page is a special note that pertain to those words. What did the author want you, the reader, to know?

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what did the author want the reader to learn from the footnotes?

• The author wanted the reader to know the definition of the words

• The author wanted the reader to know how to pronounce the words

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What is happening in the picture? What text feature helps you to know this?

• The paleontologist have collapsed from the heat, the map of Africa

• The paleontologist are demonstrating the size of the supercroc, the photo caption

• The paleontologist are exhausted from all their hard work, context clues

• The paleontologist are lying in wait for a supercroc to appear, wishful thinking

Headings can excite the reader and can even help the reader to understand what they are about to learn

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The author creatively used a question as the heading to spark the reader's curiosity. The author could have also used any of the following headings EXCEPT...

• Giant Crocodiles

• Larger than an African Elephant

• One of the largest crocodiles to ever walk the earth

• Crocodiles that live today

What text feature are these words written in?

What does this signal to the reader?

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What text feature are these words written in?

• Highlighted

• Italics

• Bold

• Capitalized

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What does this signal to the reader?

• The meaning of the words

• The importance of the words

• The pronunciation of the words

• The names of important crocodiles

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What is the text structure of the marked paragraph?

• Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Problem & Solution

What is the text structure of this passage?

Multiple Choice

What is the text structure of this passage?

• Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Problem & Solution