Text and Graphic Features:Part 1: PowerPoint LessonPart 2: Projectable 23.2Part 3: Practice Book Page 265 Practice Book Page 266Part 4: Leveled Practice Page 17 Leveled Practice Page 18 Leveled Practice Page 23 Leveled Practice Page 24Part 5: Adapted Worksheets
Text features are animportant feature to anyreading. While you arereading, do you see titles,charts, photos, captions,headlines, bold or italicizedprint? THOSE ARE TEXTFEATURES!
If you learn how toidentify text features and usethem prior to reading a text,you will improve yourcomprehension.
During the readingprocess, you will use the textfeatures to locate essentialinformation from the text. Themore times you process theinformation given, the morelikely you are going to retainthe information.
TYPES OF INFORMATIONAL TEXT FEATURES
Print Features Organizational Aids Graphic Aids Illustrations
WHAT ARE TEXT FEATURES?
This science textbook contains ofvariety of text features to help thereader understand the content.