Text Features

Text Features

I can organize and categorize information presented in a text.

I can use images to help me make sense of the text. 

Good readers organize information.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an example of a timeline?

Multiple Select

How are text features used?

• To make the information less boring.

• To preview the information provided.

• To clarify big ideas

• To show it's easier to read the features than the whole book.

Multiple Select

Why do we use text features?

Select two answers

• To help identify big ideas

• So that we don't have to read the whole book.

• To provide support to the information the author gives.

• To figure out why the author wrote the book.

Multiple Choice

What is the function of a timeline?

• To help readers visualize what happened

• To help readers understand the time it took for something to happen

• To give you the main idea

• It has no function

Good readers use images to support their reading.

Multiple Choice

What graphic feature is shown in this example?

• photograph
• table
• map
• diagram

Multiple Choice

Pictures taken with a camera to show objects as they appear in real life.

• Diagram
• Drawing
• Photograph
• Table

Multiple Choice

What text feature is added to help provide more information about photographs, illustrations, or diagrams?

• Illustrations
• subheadings
• special print
• labels

Multiple Choice

What is the difference between a illustration and picture?

•  A picture is taken with a camera
• An illustration is drawn
• An illustration is drawn and a picture is taken with a real camera
• There is no difference 

Multiple Choice

Where would you find a caption?

• Close to a picture
• At the top of a section
• On the table of contents
• In the glossary

Multiple Choice

The picture shows me the...

• Pictures

• Key words

• Diagram

• Map

Multiple Choice

The picture shows me the...

• Diagram

• Title Page

• Map