Expository Text Features

What is the purpose of 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

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Photos or pictures used to help the reader visualize something in the  passage

• Index

• photographs

• Index

• Labels

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

When you are looking for a particular piece of information in expository text, what can help you FIRST?

• Rereading the entire selection

• Rereading the subheading for each section of text

• Looking at the photos

• Reading the last paragraph

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Reading the title, subtitle, subheadings, photos and captions BEFORE reading expository text 

• only works for good readers

•  makes you waste time before reading the selection

• creates background information so you can better understand the text

• gives you all of the answers so you don't have to read the selection

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

These are expert words that are important to understand the specific topic of the text. (May be in Bold, Underlined, or defined at the side or bottom of the text.)

• Headings/ Subheadings

• Key Vocabulary Words

• Pictures

• Charts

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

True/False: We should ALWAYS look at the text features.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What is the arrow pointing to?

• Heading

• Picture

• Caption

• Bold Word

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Which is a definition of a glossary?

• an alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc., with references to the places where they occur, typically found at the end of a book.

• an alphabetical list of terms or words found in or relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary.

• a list of titles of the parts of a book or document, organized in the order in which the parts appear.

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Choose the correct vocabulary word-  helps the reader learn about other important ideas that go along with the topic or main idea of a passage.

• Illustrations

• Captions

• Glossary

• Chart

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

Name the print in the red circle:

• bold

• important

• italics

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5