Informational Text
Text Features• There are 4 main kinds of text
features that help you find information in your textbooks:– Headings– Keywords– Captions– Footnotes
Heading• What is a heading?• The title of a section of writing
(like a chapter, a section inside of a chapter, a newspaper or magazine article, etc.)
Find the Heading:
Keywords• Keywords are important words
from a text, usually vocabulary words or names of important people, events, or ideas.
• Keywords are usually in bold and/or underlined in textbooks.
• Find the keywords in the following example:
Find the Keywords
Captions• Captions are located under
pictures, tables, graphs, forms, and other images.
• Captions tell you what’s going on in the pictures.
• What is the caption in the following example?
Find the Caption
Footnotes• Footnotes happen when the author
wants to give you more info about something in the text.
• They’re usually used to explain things like vocabulary words or to give background information.
• Footnotes are usually marked with a small superscript number like this1
• Find the Footnote in the following example:
Why?• Why is it important to know about
text features like headings, keywords, captions, and footnotes?
• They help you find information quickly
• They help show you important information
• They’re like road signs pointing you to what you need to know.
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