Informational Review

If you are feeling sad, you can make yourself feel better by doing a few simple things. You can take a walk (or get another form of exercise), you can talk to a friend, or you can write down your feelings. Writing down the good things in your life will help too. Doing something good for someone else will also help you feel better. If you still feel a little sad, act happy. It works like magic to make you feel better!
What is the main idea?

• Sometimes people feel sad.
• You should do good things for others.
• We're not always happy.
• There are many ways to make yourself feel better. 

The purpose of the text feature below the photo is 

• to show the main idea of the article to the reader. 
• To convince the reader that snakes are dangerous 
• To provide an explanation of the photo
  
• To inform the reader about the history of snakes. 

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 

the author wants you to do, buy, or believe something 

• persuade
• inform
• entertain

The author wants to give you information.

• Entertain

• Persuade

• Inform

the author wants to amuse you or for you to enjoy the writing

• Entertain
• Inform
• Persuade

textbooks, non-fiction books, expository essays, biographies, newspaper articles, and directions are examples of:

• Persuade
• Inform
• Entertain

Different features that we see in texts are...

• Titles

• Subheadings

• Captions

• Sidebars

• All of the above

Text features do not allow you to preview the text.

• True

• False

The topic is...

• What the text is about

• What your guess is before reading the text

• Whatever the first subheading is