Text Features and Structures

Identify the Text Feature

• chart
• table of contents
• map

Identify the Text Feature

• chart
• bullets
• table of contents

Type of writing that can contain text structures and text features

• Non-Fiction
• Fiction
• Historical Fiction
• Realistic Fiction

Tags

CCSS.W.4.2A

Added to assist the reader with understanding the information

• Text Structure
• Text Organization
• Text Features
• Text Messages

Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem

• Compare/Contrast
• Chronological
• Problem/Solution
• Sequence/Order of Importance

Wild chimpanzees are rapidly disappearing. Some people are trying to solve this problem. Otherwise, chimpanzees may one day exist only in zoos. People are trying to save the rain forests and woodlands where the chimps live from being cut down. It will take many people working together to solve this problem

• Compare/Contrast
• Chronological
• Problem/Solution
• Sequence/Order of Importance

When Americans settled the Midwest, they were challenged by tough soils that resisted their cast iron plows. The Midwest contains some of the richest soil in the world, yet many settlers concluded that the soil was unsuitable for farming because they couldn't break ground. John Deere's steel plow changed all of that. Deere's plow was stronger and lighter than the iron plows people had used up until then. This allowed settlers to open up the tough but rich soil in the Midwest and unlock its agricultural potential. His invention became known as "The Plow that Broke the Plains," and it helped American farmers feed the world.

• Cause/Effect
• Problem/Solution
• Sequence/Order of Importance
• Compare/Contrast

Thomas Edison became known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park" in 1877, when he invented the phonograph. Edison's phonograph allowed people to record sounds and replay them. Though this technology was unimpressive by today's standards—his recordings would only play few times and the sound quality was poor— back then Edison’s device appeared to be magical. That's why people called Edison "The Wizard of Menlo Park," because they suspected him of witchcraft. 

• Cause/Effect
• Chronological
• Sequence/Order of Importance
• Problem/Solution

• Caption
• Index
• Glossary
• Textbox

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.7

This provides additional information to accompany the text in a box located near the text.

• Textbox
• Index
• Glossary 
• Subheading