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Text Features

Text Features. Informational reading materials such as signs, hand-outs, textbooks, web pages, newspapers, etc. will often have text features to help a reader find and use the information in them quickly and easily.

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Text Features

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  1. Text Features Informational reading materials such as signs, hand-outs, textbooks, web pages, newspapers, etc. will often have text features to help a reader find and use the information in them quickly and easily

  2. Text features are things that draw attention to certain words or ideas; they can be found inside the text (internal) or outside the text (external).

  3. …external text features • Pictures, visuals, and graphics • Table of contents, index, glossary • Chapter titles, headings, subheadings • Italics, boldface, marginal notes

  4. and internal text features… • compare and contrast • description • sequence of events • problem and solution • cause and effect • directions

  5. Getting the Most from Pictures I wonder…

  6. Archaeologists have helped us to understand that the evolution of the crocodile began with…. • compare and contrast • description • sequence of events • problem and solution • cause and effect • directions

  7. When observing a crocodile, first you must… • compare and contrast • description • sequence of events • problem and solution • cause and effect • directions

  8. One problem to resolve in crocodile watching is transportation. How can an observer get close enough to watch without scaring it away or being attacked? • compare and contrast • description • sequence of events • problem and solution • cause and effect • directions

  9. We observed the crocodile as it stalked a raccoon moving through the moonlight toward the edge of the water. As a result of a noise we made, the raccoon bolted… • compare and contrast • description • sequence of events • problem and solution • cause and effect • directions

  10. The crocodile is the master of deception in water. It stalks its prey then swiftly closes in for the kill. • compare and contrast • description • sequence of events • problem and solution • cause and effect • directions

  11. The power of the crocodile is like that of a monstrous machine. With one lunge it can destroy its prey and protect the kills from other predators. • compare and contrast • description • sequence of events • problem and solution • cause and effect • directions

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