🍐 Informational Text Features

Multiple Choice

What are some characteristics and structures of informational text that support understanding?

• Sections

• Graphs

• Timelines

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

How does a subheading help the reader?

• it summarizes the main idea of the text
• it helps 'chunk' the text into a smaller parts to understand the big idea in the heading 
• it explains the illustrations

Multiple Choice

What text features are seen in this image?

• heading, index

• bold print, glossary

• heading, photo

• photo, opinion

Multiple Choice

This text feature gives us extra information that is not included in the main text. What is it?

• Facts Box

• Label

Multiple Choice

The title of a page or article is what text feature

• Label

• Heading

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 

Poll

How confident do you feel about this topic now?

• Very confident
• Somewhat confident
• Not confident

Open Ended

In your own words, what are text features?

​Today we will notice text features and use it to help support our understanding of texts. We will also show how to write about it using a sentence stem.

Dropdown

Which text features did we see in our Deserts book?​

Select answer

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• What print features are used in the text?

• What graphic features are used in the text?

• How do the features help you better understand the ideas?​

When you see print and graphic features in texts, think about these questions:

• What do they mean by images?

• What does useful mean?

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How are the images useful to the reader?

Draw

Circle the images

Multiple Choice

How are the images useful to the reader?

• They show how phones have changed through the years

• They explain how each type of phone is used

• They give examples of populat phones from the past

• They emphasize how the phones are alike.

• Who is the author?

• What are captions?​

Why does the author use captions in the text?

Draw

Circle the captions

Multiple Choice

Why does the author use captions in the text?

• To give facts about each phone.

• To provide answers to questions about phone

• To identify each type of phone

• To explain how users place calls with each phone.

• What does supported mean?

• What are images?

Which main idea in the text is supported by the image of the smartphone?

Draw

Circle the smartphone

Multiple Choice

Which idea in the text is supported by the image of the smartphone?

• These phones were connected to the wall (paragraph 1)

• Some phones had caller ID (paragraph 2)

• People made calls and later texted on these phones (paragraph 3)

• They can use the GPS, check e-mail, take photos, and oh yes, do not forget - talk! (paragraph 4)

Multiple Choice

In paragraph 1, which key idea do the details support about why phones were mainly used for talking?

• Phones had GPS and Internet access

• Phones allowed people to move around the house while talking

• Phones were connected to the wall, shared by the family, and had no caller ID

• Phones could be used to text, check email, and take photos.

Multiple Choice

Which key idea do the details in paragraphs 2 and 3 support about phones changing over time?

• Phones did not change much over the years.

• Phones became more advanced and added new features over time.

• Phones became more expensive over time.

• Phones become less useful over the years.

Multiple Choice

Which detail from the text supports the key idea that phones have changed over time?

• Thirty years ago people used rotary dial or push-button phones

• Call waiting was available

• The phone charged in a base that plugged into the wall

• Answering machines were soon connected to phones.