Text Features in Impossible Creatures (sample)

Text Features

Using Impossible Creatures

7ELA2.5C: make and correct or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures;

​Supporting TEKS

Students will use text structures to make inferences and draw conclusions about a text.

Learning Target

​Turn and talk with your elbow partner, then be prepared to share ideas with the class.

What do text features look like in a fiction book?

Illustrations

Fiction books can have illustrations in them. They can be found as chapter headers or somewhere in the middle of the story.

Remember the Kraken on pages 132 and 133?

Illustrations cont'd

Illustrations pop up several times throughout Impossible Creatures. They convey emotions, show described settings, and introduce us to characters. What other illustrations can you think of within the book?

Poll

Do the illustrations in Impossible Creatures help or harm your understanding?

• Help me a lot

• Help me a little

• Don't help me

• Harm or distract me

​Chapter Titles

Chapter titles mark where the story takes a turn or where a new topic or day is explored. The names of chapter titles can help readers infer what may be coming. They can be numbered, like in Harry Potter, or unnumbered, like we see in Impossible Creatures.

The Guardian's Secret

Fire in the Sky

Remember, not all of us read at the same pace! If you have read the chapters listed below, this is a NO SPOILER ZONE!

​​Gelifen

​What can you infer from these chapter titles?

Quotation Marks

Quotation marks show you when a character is speaking. Typically, when a character begins to speak, their quotation marks show the start of a new paragraph, indentations and all.

"The last person who asked for helps," said Ratwin, "we threw them to the kappas, and the kappas ate them, and then the kappas gots eaten by the kraken. So they got eaten twice. So you should beware." (Rundell 86)

What can a character quote tell us about the story?

What questions before we move on?