Text Features

Narrative/Fiction Text Characters Setting Plot Non-Fiction Text Table of Contents Index Photographs Captions Labels Cutaways Close-ups Comparisons Charts, Tables, & Graphs Maps Types of Print Glossary Standards (classroom) Standards (library)

Table of Contents
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Narrative/Fiction Text
Purpose: Entertainment

Characters
People or animals that are in the story.

Setting
Where the story takes place

Plot
Action, problem and solution

Non-fiction Text
Purpose: Gain information or facts about people, places, things, or events

Table of Contents
The Table of Contents helps the reader identify key topics in the book in the order they are presented. It is found at the beginning of the book. Table of Contents
How to choose a puppy 2 Helping your puppy adjust to his new home 6 Feeding your new puppy 10 Potty training a puppy 12

Index
An index is an Christmas 20-30 cultural traditions 21, 22, alphabetical list of introduction 20 almost everything presents 30 covered in the Easter 10-15 text, with page eggs 15 numbers. It is located at the back of the book.

Photographs
Photographs help the reader understand exactly what something looks like.

Captions
Captions help the reader better understand a picture or photograph

Bison or buffalo once roamed the Great Plains.

Labels
Labels help the reader identify a picture or photograph and/or its part.

petals

stem

Cutaways
Cutaways help the reader understand something by looking at it from the inside. (Like cutting a slice of something.) http://www.saskschools.ca/~gregory/animals/images/bvr2.jpg

Close-ups
Close-ups help the reader see details in something small.

Comparisons
Comparisons help the reader understand the size of one thing by comparing it to the size of something else. Comparisons may also be in the form of charts, tables, or graphs where you are comparing data.

Charts & Tables help the reader understand important information by listing it in a chart or table. Graphs help the reader see relationships between things.

Charts, Tables,and Graphs

M & M Graph
10 10 9 8 7 6 5 Num ber of M & Ms 5 4 4 3 2 2 1 0 red yellow Color of M & Ms blue green red yellow blue green

Color of M & Ms Red Yellow Blue Green

Number of M & Ms 4 5 10 3

Maps
Maps help the reader understand where things are in the world.

http://www.oldmap.co.uk/ISLE-OF-WIGHT-old-Map.jpg

Types of Print
Types of print help the reader by signaling, Look at me! Im important! It may be bold print, italics, ALL CAPS, underlined, or larger The old dresser draw screeched as the children slowly pulled it open. Inside they found and old document that gave directions to a lost gold mine.

print.

Glossary
The glossary helps the reader understand key words that are in the text. It is an alphabetical listing of key words and their meaning. It is located in the back of the book. Other names: Important Words to Know.
captions cutaways Captions words describing what is happening in a picture or photograph Close-ups enlarged picture or object to show details in something small Cutaways picture or illustration that helps the reader understand something by looking at it from the inside. (Like cutting a slice of something)

Classroom Standards
Benchmark 4: The student comprehends a variety of texts (narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive)

Standard 1: The student reads and comprehends text across the curriculum Indicators : 2 The student understands the purpose of text features (title, graphs/charts, maps, table of contents, pictures/illustrations, captions, boldface type, italics, glossary, index, headings, and subheadings) and uses such features to locate information in and to gain meaning from appropriate-level texts

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Library Standards

1.1 Skills

Standard 1: Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge 1.1.6 Read, view, and listen for iinformation presented in any format (e.g., textual, visual, media, digital) in order to make inferences and gather meaning.

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