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Agenda 9/8 Expectations/
Reading and Interest Inventory (10-15)
Text Features Beezlebufo Activity
(10-15) Power Point on Text
Features (10) If time: Featureless
Text Articles
When you come in:
1. Pick up your comment card from side cabinet.
2. Please find your new seat.
3. Write down your agenda.
4. Begin to fill out Interest Inventory .
Expectations
Finish reading inventory. My Job/Your Job
What is expected of me? What is expected of you? Let’s decide!
In your groups, come up with 3 expectations you have of me and yourself. I’ll do the same.
Democracy, not a dictatorship—but Ms. Haynes and I have veto power.
New Procedures
In addition to writing your agenda, when you come in: Find your comment card Read agenda / Follow instructions on
Power Point Get ready to work!
Late Work
I will only accept 4 assignments late for partial credit (Up to 80%)
Ask for help before it’s due! (I don’t bite.)
I’ll keep due dates on the board.
Text Features
QUIZ: Read the Beelzebufo article. Be ready to answer questions for a quiz. You only have 3 minutes to read! GO GO GO!
Just Kidding
What makes this article difficult to comprehend?
Compare the two articles. What features could have helped your reading if you were quizzed?
With your group, discuss and jot down your answers in your notes.
Text Features as Tools
Just like a surgeon uses a scalpel as a tool, text features are tools for readers.
Would you want an untrained surgeon to use a scalpel on you?
Just like a surgeon needs to know how to use a scalpel, you need to learn how to use text structures.
Pssst, that was
an analog
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Text Features Exploration
Look at your college textbook on your table. Identify the following features.
Preface (if you have one) Headings/Subheadings Index Glossary (if you have one) Boldface type / Italicized type Table of Contents Sidebars Graphs/Pictures Diagrams Captions Footnotes
1.What are these features? Where can you find them?
2.What are they used for? How do you think these features would help you if you had to read this text?
Text Features Exploration
Preface (if you have one)
Headings/Subheadings Index Glossary (if you have
one) Boldface type /
Italicized type Table of Contents Sidebars Graphs/Pictures
Diagrams Captions Footnotes
1. What are these features? Where can you find them?
2. What is the purpose of each feature? How do you think these features would help you if you had to read this text?
3. If you don’t have a feature in your text, does it make it more difficult to understand? How?
Preface
A statement at the front of the book by the book’s author or editor, explaining its purpose and expressing appreciation for help received from others.
Can help you understand context.
Headings/Subheadings
Heading—Announces the topics that will be covered, a line of text to indicate what the passage below it is about
Subheading—given to a smaller subsection within a larger piece of writing
Headings/Subheadings help you know what to focus on.
Gives an organizational structure.
Index
Alphabetical list of topics included in the book and their corresponding page numbers; found in very back.
Useful to find exact topics in the text.
Very helpful for research!
Glossary
Alphabetical list of key terms and definitions related to a subject.
Great as a reference if you do not understand a term.
Boldface/Italicized Type
Boldface and italicized indicate important information
Slow down and pay attention to these.
Table of Contents
A list of the parts of a book or document; placed at the front of the book, it’s organized in the order in which the parts appear.
How would you use a table of contents differently than an index?
Sidebar
Boxed sections off to the side containing interesting, related information that can stand on its own.
Helps readers understand context.
Graphs
Graphs are visual comparisons of data and information in a bar/pie/line format.
Help conceptualize data.
Charts• Tables are summaries of facts or data
written in columns or rows.• Charts are visual representations of
quantities or results. Class Period Number of
Students Falling Asleep
1 22/3 54 1.235 2/3
Captions
Text describing the contents of a picture, graph, or chart.
Footnotes
• Footnotes help readers understand confusing parts of texts or unfamiliar allusions.