Nonfiction Graphic Features

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Nonfiction Graphic Features

• Ms. Osborne
• Mountain View ES
• 5th Grade

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Standards to Cover

• ELA5R1
• c. Identifies and uses knowledge of common
  graphic features (e.g., charts, maps, diagrams,
  captions, and illustrations).

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Essential Questions

• How can graphic features help me understand what
  I am reading?
• How can I use the features and organization of a
  book to help me comprehend?

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Where will you find these nonfiction features?

• In your textbooks (science, social studies,
  math)
• Newspapers
• Magazines

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What are nonfiction text features?

• Text features are simply tools to help you
  comprehend what you are reading!!
• We are going to focus on the following features
• Captions
• Labels
• Comparisons
• Fonts
• Headings
• And
• Graphics

Try looking only at these features before you
readthey will help you focus on the main idea of
the section or chapter!!!
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Lets start with captions!

• What are captions?
• Have you ever noticed the writing around pictures
  in a book that you are reading?
• Well those are captions
• They usually are around a picture to explain what
  the picture is about.

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Locate a different caption in your science text
book and share it with your neighbor.

• How did you know that it was a caption?

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OKlets move on to labels!

• What are labels?
• They are also part of a picturethey actually
  point out specific features in a picture.

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Now it is your turn to locate a label!

• Show your neighbor!
• How did you know that it was a label and not a
  caption?

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Oklets move onto comparisons!

• Do you know what it means to compare something?
• Well a comparison in a text book, magazine, or
  newspaper is the same thing.. It shows two or
  more objects to compare size (example showing a
  hand and comparing it to the size of a paperclip)

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Your turnlocate and share a comparison!

• Againhow did you know??

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Check up time!!

• What is a label?
• What is a caption?
• How do you know the difference between the two?
• What is a comparison? Give me an example

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Lets keep on going

• Now what do you know about fonts??
• Why would different types of fonts be important
  (they are not just used to make things pretty ?)
• Fonts are different ways of showing important
  words.
• What are some different ways of doing this?
• BOLD, italics, highlight, underline, ALL CAPS

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Headings

• These are everywhere!!!
• They are normally at the beginning of a
  section/chapter to tell you what you are about to
  read.

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How are headings helpful?

• If you choose a heading from your Social Studies
  or Science book and turn it into a question, it
  will give you a purpose to read! For example
• What are Single-Celled Organisms?
• This will tell you what to look for when you are
  reading!!! WOW?

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Find a heading in chapter one of your science
book

• Look at the heading and form a question
• Now read the section and lets see if changing
  the heading into a question helps you understand
  what you are reading
• What do you think??? (I give it two thumbs up!)

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Oklast oneGraphics

• You see these everywhereespecially in your math
  book.have any ideas of what I am talking about?
• You got itpie graphs, line graphs, bar graphs,
  pictographs, maps, charts, tables
• How are these helpful?
• It makes data and information easy to read and
  understand!!

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Lets review

• What is a caption?
• What is a label?
• How are headings useful?
• Name a few different ways to show that words or
  phrases are important
• How are graphics useful? Give a few graphics that
  we see often
• What is the last feature that we need to review
• Comparisonshow are these used?

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• Now you are a Nonfiction Text Features EXPERT?