Fears and Phobias: Text Features and Main Idea

Fears and Phobias
Text Features, main idea, and punctuation

By Brittney Aldazabal

Explanation Slide...

Text features help us find information quickly, and they help the reader locate important information about a topic.

Multiple Select

Check off all examples of text features

• Heading/subheading

• caption

• picture

• Sidebar

• Textual evidence

Multiple Select

What is the purpose of text features?

• help the reader understand and locate important information about the topic

• I don't know

• help the reader find information quickly

• provides facts

Match

Match the text feature and definition:

• photograph

• subheading

• subtitle

A picture taken with a camera to show a real life example of content of a non-fiction text.

A tool authors use to separate sections of text. These are mini titles under a heading.

A short phrase directly connected to the title. It provides the reader with more info about the text

• A picture taken with a camera to show a real life example of content of a non-fiction text.

• A tool authors use to separate sections of text. These are mini titles under a heading.

• A short phrase directly connected to the title. It provides the reader with more info about the text

Multiple Choice

Main Idea

Read paragraph 2 under "What is Fear" on pg. 205.

Fear is one of the most basic human emotions. It is programmed into the nervous system and works like an instinct. From the time we're infants, we are equipped with the survival instincts necessary to respond with fear when we sense danger or feel unsafe.

Pick one sentence that would be the main idea of the paragraph.

• Fear is one of the most basic human emotions

• We are equipped with survival instincts

• It is programmed into the nervous system

Multiple Choice

The main idea is what the passage is ____ about.

• Partly

• Mostly

Multiple Choice

Read this sentence from paragraph 9 of the selection.

People fear things or situations that make them feel unsafe or unsure.

What does the word unsafe mean as used in this sentence?

• Not certain

  
  

• In danger

• Guarded

• Misunderstood

Multiple Choice

Click the phrase that is correctly punctuated.

• I'm afraid of two things storms-and loud noises.

• I'm afraid of two things storms-and-loud noises.

• I'm afraid of two things-storms and loud noises.