Text Features and Text Structure

What is this nonfiction text feature?

• Chart

• Heading

• Sidebar

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What text features did you see? Check off ALL the text features that apply!

• Caption

• Glossary

• Bold words

• Map

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What is the text structure of the marked paragraph?

• Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Problem & Solution

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What is the text structure of this passage?

• Sequence

• Compare and Contrast

• Descriptive

• Problem & Solution

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Green turtles live in the ocean. People used to hunt them to make turtle soup, as well as for their meat. They also were hunted because people wanted to use their skin for leather. As a result, the green turtle population is much lower than it used to be.

What is the text structure?

• Descriptitve

• Sequence

• Compare & Contrast

• Cause & Effect

• Problem & Solution

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What type of nonfiction text structure is used below?

• Descriptive

• Sequential (or Chronological)

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What type of nonfiction text structure is used below?

• Descriptive

• Sequential (or Chronological)

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What type of nonfiction text structure is used below? In much of the world, the game we call soccer is called "futbol." Soccer and football have a few things in common -- they both have 11 players per side, for example. But the two games are quite different as well: in soccer, players cannot use their hands to score a goal. In football, you can run with the ball or throw it to a teammate for a touchdown!

• Descriptive

• Sequential (or Chronological)

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What is the function of a timeline?

• To help readers visualize what happened

• To help readers understand the time it took for something to happen or the order things happened

• To give you the main idea

• It has no function

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CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

This is an example of ____________ text feature? NOTICE THE LABELS added to the picture.

• Index

• Table of contents

• Glossary

• Diagram

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CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5