This chart provides the purpose with visual examples of 18 different text features. Students can use this as a hang-on-the-wall handout for reference.
1. About This Resource This chart provides the purpose and a visual example of 18 different text features. Use this as a student handout/ student notes, for interactive journals, or hang it on the wall as a student reference You can buy a comprehensive text features resource here. You might also find these text features blog posts helpful: Free Text Features Slideshow Text Feature Scavenger Hunt Ideas Text Feature Anchor Charts Integrating Technology While Teaching Text Features The following text features are included title labels title page graph table of contents table index map glossary diagram heading bold print photograph italics illustration bullet points caption fact box/side bar
2. Nonfiction Text Features Chart
Text Feature
Identifies the topic of the text/tells what the text will be about Bones and More Bones The Ketel System WR The skeletal system is made up of all the bones in your body. It is also made of the things that connect your bones together: tendons, ligaments, and cartilage. The skeletal system also includes one set of hard objects that aren't bones: your
Title Page Tells a book’s title, author, illustrator, and publisher
Tells the definitions of some of the words found in a text Shin - the front of the leg bone thet. runs rom the knee to the ankle ‘Skin —the outer layer of tissve that, covers the entire body ‘Skul -the large structure of bones in the ‘Thigh — the pert of the leg that runs from the knee to the hip. Tooth ~ a hard bony oh}ect in the Jaw; Used for chewing
Divides the text into sections and explains what the sections will be about
Central Nervous System
3. Nonfiction Text Features Chart
something looks like (taken with a Text Feature Purpose Example Shows what
Shows what
iustration | something looks like (drawn by an artist) Explains what a Caption photograph or illustration is about J This is a side view of a human brain. Tells the names of ase = certain parts of a re Labels photograph or eu ™is'made of:
Organizes and helps compare information in a visual way
Organizes facts and numbers in a visual way so it is easier to read
How much does your heart beat? 90 MINUTE 129,000 DAY 3.8 million MONTH 473 million YEAR
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Text Feature Purpose Shows where places/ Map events are located “ae
Explains information or how something works in 4 visual way E YE 4
Bold Print Shows what words are important or what words can be found in the glossary The digestive system iS made up of organs and glands that/nelp your body ESS
Shows that a word is The average adult breathes more than 600
1 ° times each hour. Adults Italics important take more than 2a breaths each day. Types of blood vessels: Bullet Makes lists easier to * Arteries Points read and understand + Veins * Capillaries Gives interesting Fact Box/ facts or extra Side Bar information about a
5. Save time planning with the complete resource Text Features Activities — Centers, Posters, Reading Passages, and More It includes no prep activities, reading passages, task cards, centers, writing integration, and more! You might also find these blog posts helpful: How to Scaffold a Compare and Contrast Essay Text Feature Scavenger Hunts Morning Work Made Easy Character Traits: Free Graphic Organizers Point of View: It’s Not Just About 1% and Srd faker Teaching Made Updated 2017. All rights reserved. By copyright law, the download of this product entitles one teacher the use printed files for a single cymmmen| Permission from the author, Kalena Baker PYAR ON a ON Oy OS a AIR
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