Information Text

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Information Text Text Features

• SPI 0601.6.3 Use text features to locate
  information and make meaning from text (e.g.,
  headings, key words, captions, footnotes).

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• Text features are parts of informational
  (nonfiction) text other than the body that help
  the reader understand the content more clearly.

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PowerPoints

• PowerPoint Presentation http//www.authorstream.co
  m/Presentation/ttravis-57862-Text-Features-Table-C
  ontents-Index-Glossary-Titles-Subheadings-Bold-Col
  or-Education-ppt-powerpoint/
• http//www.authorstream.com/Presentation/wkulitera
  cy-102604-text-features-readingskills-education-pp
  t-powerpoint/
• Text Features PowerPoint http//www.cgrove417.org/
  cghs/KASL/Handouts/Text_Features.ppt
• Text Features PowerPoint http//jc-schools.net/dy
  namic/LA/ppt/Text_Features.ppt

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Practice with Captions

• Captions Help Tell the Story http//www.tv411.org/
  lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?strreadingnum2act4qu
  e1 Students look at three pictures and try to
  determine which caption fits best.

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Practice with Newspapers

• Read All About It http//www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm
  /reading.cfm?strreadingnum2act2que1 Newspa
  pers are divided into standard sections. Students
  use sections to predict where types of stories
  would be found.

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Practice with Headlines

• Reading Headlines http//www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm
  /reading.cfm?strreadingnum2act3que1 Studen
  ts read eight headlines and try to determine what
  the article is about.

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Organizers

• http//t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/cbl/images/litfac/binfo
  .pdf
• Web Walk http//www.barbbumgardner.com/Graphics/pd
  f_files/WebWalk.pdf
• Inside a News Story http//www.timeforkids.com/TFK
  /class/pdfs/2006F/060901_wr2.pdf
• NONFICTION TEXT FEATURES http//www.slc.k12.ut.us/
  staff/larmad/science/pages/Reading20Strategies/te
  xtfeatures.pdf

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Sample Test Questions
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