Text Features

Text Features

using the article "Modern-Day Slavery"

Open Ended

Modern-day slavery exists.

--How widespread do you think it is? Why?

Open Ended

Modern-day slavery exists.

--Do you think anything can be done about it? Why?

Text Features

• Title -- a name that identifies the article

• Blurb -- a short piece of writing that promotes something

• Heading -- a line of text telling what the passage below it is about

• Picture -- illustrations or photographs used to decorate or support a text

Text Features

• Caption -- a short description or title accompanying an illustration in a printed text

• Graphic -- a visual such as a graph or map to support a text

• Graphic Key -- an explanatory list of the symbols or abbreviations used on a map

• Side Bar -- text set apart from the main text, (usually located on the side or bottom of the page) and elaborate on a detail mentioned in the text

Open Ended

Modern-Day Slavery

Tens of millions of people around the world, including children, are forced to work as slaves. What can be done to help them?

Based on the title and blurb, what are two questions you have about the article?

Multiple Choice

Headings are a line of text telling what the passage below it is about.

Based on the headings, in which section are you most likely to find information about child slaves around the world?

• History of Slavery

• A Global Problem

• Kids Working for Change

Multiple Choice

Headings are a line of text telling what the passage below it is about.

Based on the headings, in which section are you most likely to find information about what people are doing about modern-day slavery?

• Slavery Around the World

• History of Slavery

• Kids Working for Change

Open Ended

Pictures are illustrations or photographs used to decorate or support a text

Captions are a short description or title accompanying an illustration in a printed text.

How does the picture and caption further your understanding of modern-day slavery?

Caption says -- Many packaged goods contain palm oil processed by slaves in Indonesia.

A graphic is a visual such as a graph or map to support a text. Using the graphic below...

• What information does the graphic tell you?

• Name one country that has more than 1 million slaves.

• What was the author's purpose for including this graphic? (Why do you think the author chose to include this graphic?)

Multiple Choice

What information does the graphic tell you?

• Why slavery still exists

• How to prevent slavery

• The number of slaves in different countries

• How to identify North, East, South, and West on a map

Multiple Choice

Name one country that has more than 1 million slaves.

• Nigeria

• China

• Indonesia

• Australia

Open Ended

What was the author's purpose for including this graphic? (Why do you think the author chose to include this graphic?)

Multiple Choice

Side Bars are set apart from the main text, (usually located on the side or bottom of the page) and elaborate on a detail mentioned in the text.

What was the author's purpose for including the additional section "Made by Slaves" at the end of the article?

• To explain what clothing, electronics, and household items are

• To encourage you to buy new clothes, electronics, and house items

• To show that many of the items you use every day are made by slaves

• To ask you to do something to stop slavery