Text Features

Text Features

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Text Structures for Informational Text

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What do you know about informational text?

​Text Features

• ​Authors of informational texts often use different kinds of text features to help explain an idea or to help readers locate information in the text.

• ​Text features have different purposes. Authors choose the types that will best help readers understand the information they want to tell about.

Multiple Choice

A word added to a diagram that helps provide more information about photograph.

• Illustrations

• subheadings

• special print

• labels

Multiple Choice

Found under pictures to help the reader better understand the picture of diagram.

• Illustrations

• Captions

• Glossary

• Chart

Multiple Choice

Why would a reader use a glossary when reading an informational text?

• To find a specific topic

• To find the meaning of a bold or highlighted work from the text

• to find out more information about the topic

• to locate information to see how it is organized

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of these subheadings?

• To help the reader understand the author’s opinion 

• To help the reader visualize the information 

• To help the reader find the main ideas in each section

• To help the reader place events in order 

Multiple Choice

present information in a visual way, allow readers to have a visual of the topic

• captions

• timelines

• titles

• photographs/illustration

Multiple Choice

True/False: We should ALWAYS look at the text features.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

A picture that shows the location of things or places

• Graph

• Index

• Map

• Photograph

Multiple Choice

This text structure is "how are things in the text similar or different."

• Main Idea and Details

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Comparison

Multiple Choice

The text structure that is written in a style that tells what happened and why it happens is...

• Problem and Solution

• Question and Answer

• Chronological

• Cause and Effect

Multiple Choice

This text structure tells what is the conflict, or problem, and how it was resolved.

• Main Ideas and Details

• Problem and Solution

• Chronological

• Cause and Effect