Text Features

Why do we use text features?

Select two answers

• To help identify big ideas

• So that we don't have to read the whole book.

• To provide support to the information the author gives.

• To figure out why the author wrote the book.

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How are text features used?

• To make the information less boring.

• To preview the information provided.

• To clarify big ideas

• To show it's easier to read the features than the whole book.

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TEKS.ELA.1.6C

TEKS.ELA.2.6C

TEKS.ELA.3.6C

TEKS.ELA.4.6C

TEKS.ELA.K.5C

What are text features?

• Doodles the author had to put in.

• Information to throw the reader off-track.

• Parts of a reading passage.

• Extra information not important enough to write a whole paragraph about.

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TEKS.ELA.1.6C

TEKS.ELA.2.6C

TEKS.ELA.3.6C

TEKS.ELA.4.6C

TEKS.ELA.5.6C

What is this an example of?

• Glossary

• Index

• Footnotes

• Table of Contents

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TEKS.ELA.1.6C

TEKS.ELA.2.6C

TEKS.ELA.3.6C

TEKS.ELA.4.6C

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Usually found at the end of a passage or the back of the book to help the reader understand the meaning of important words.

• Illustrations
• Captions
• Glossary
• Chart

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TEKS.ELA.6.5C

TEKS.ELA.7.5C

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TEKS.ELA.E2.8C

This is an example of _______________.

• a table of contents page
• an index page
• a glossary
• a title page

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TEKS.ELA.5.6C

TEKS.ELA.6.5C

TEKS.ELA.7.5C

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The black line is pointing to which text feature?

• caption
• heading
• subheading
• diagram

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

The black line is pointing to which text feature?

• caption
• heading
• subheading
• diagram

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TEKS.ELA.6.5C

TEKS.ELA.7.5C

TEKS.ELA.8.5C

TEKS.ELA.CRSS.5C

TEKS.ELA.E2.8C

What is a caption?

• words that describe what is happening in a picture
• a word that stands out
• a picture
• what page you can find information on

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

This is a ________________.

• caption
• diagram
• map
• label

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TEKS.ELA.3.10C

TEKS.ELA.4.10C

TEKS.ELA.5.10C

TEKS.ELA.6.9C

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