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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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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What is this an example of?

• Glossary

• Index

• Footnotes

• Table of Contents

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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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The black line is pointing to which text feature?

• caption
• heading
• subheading
• diagram

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The black line is pointing to which text feature?

• caption
• heading
• subheading
• diagram

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This is a ________________.

• caption
• diagram
• map
• label

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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 

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Which of these is an example of a timeline?

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CCSS.RL.5.7

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