Text Features Lessons

Analyzing

Graphic

Text Features

Objective:

Students will use comprehension skills and make
inferences to analyze how words, images and graphics work together in various forms to impact meaning.

Draw

Draw or type 2 text features that assist you while reading nonfiction texts

Why are graphics and media used?

● Provide additional information
● Set mood or tone
● Persuade the audience
● Understand procedural text

Open Ended

Example: What emotion is the photograph intended to evoke?

Independent Practice:

Click the link to use the graphic text features to understand the article
Big Talkers.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12QbQrZcLJsb7-JSYZYaEY_sLN_WTvTid/view

You may need to rotate certain pages to view in landscape orientation.

Open Ended

QUESTION 1

After reading Big Talkers, what other images would you add to this
selection?

Use a complete sentence

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 2

Why does the author include the text box on page 7?

• To provide readers with more information on why elephants are being hunted

• To provide readers with helpful vocabulary words while they read

• To provide readers with insight on why elephants act the way they do

• To provide readers with a visual representation on elephants

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 3

How many muscles do elephants generally have in their trunks?

• 40,000

• 60,000

• 50,000

• 20,000

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 4

What body of water is closest to the majority of the elephants?

• The pacific ocean

• The gulf of Mexico

• Atlantic Ocean

• Indian Ocean

Open Ended

QUESTION 5

Instead of Second Language, what is an alternate subheading for paragraphs 5 through 7?

Multiple Choice

QUESTION 6

Go back on Big Talkers and look at the map
In what land regions do most African elephants live?
LOOK AT THE KEY for your answer!

• Rainforest

• Grassland

• Wetland

• Desert

Open Ended

QUESTION 7

What is the “gist” of this article?

20 words or less

Open Ended

QUESTION 8

Using RACES:
What is one fact you found most interesting in
the text?

R+A- One fact I found most interesting was_______
C- In the text, it said __________

E- This made it most interesting for me because ______

In summary, the most interesting fact for me was __________