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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment Today we will learn about the different text features you will find in books and what their functions are!

Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment Text Features are usually found in non-Fiction books!

Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment Non-fiction books are based on facts, real events, real people, or animals!

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment These types of books are loaded with information! text features help readers understand what they read more effectively.

Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment Text Features include, but are not limited to:

Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ Title ➔ Pronunciation Guide ➔ Table of Contents ➔ Bullet points ➔ Heading & ➔ Diagrams Subheading ➔ Graphs ➔ Tables & Charts ➔ Photographs & ➔ Glossary Illustrations ➔ Index ➔ Captions ➔ Key Words

Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment Let’s look at each one more closely to see how they are used!

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ The title on a book’s cover is a text feature! ➔ It lets you know what the whole book will be about! ★ What is this book about?

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ The table of contents is What page does “Scary found at the very beginning Snakes” start? of books! ➔ It lists all the chapters and the page number of where each starts. ➔ It helps readers find information more easily!

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ Headings indicated the main idea of each section. ➔ Subheadings are even more specific and are still part of the main idea. ➔ Chapter titles are a form of heading!

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ Photographs are pictures taken with a camera to show what something looks like in real life. ➔ Illustrations, on the other hand, are hand-drawn pictures to illustrate what the text is talking about in detail. ➔ Maps are considered illustrations.

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ Captions are small text located near photographs, illustrations, graphs, and diagrams that explain it or provide further information. ➔ Captions help readers focus their attention on an important concept. ➔ What does this caption tell you about Saturn?

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ Keywords are words that are important to understanding the information. ➔ These are usually the words that experts use to describe the same things! ➔ They are often bold, highlighted, or italicized.

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ Often times readers will come across new words that are difficult to pronounce! ➔ A pronunciation guide is usually located next to those words in parenthesis (pr· en· thuh· seez). ➔ It breaks the word down into syllables that are phonetic.

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ● Bullet Points are used to summarize information in short lists. ● The items in the list are all related to the topic being explained. ● These bullet points explain bullet points!

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ● Diagrams shows the different components of something. ● They can also be used to explain steps in a process of how something is made! ★ What is this a diagram of?

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ Graphs are used to display collected information in an organized way. Which one of these is a ➔ Graphs can help the “bar graph?” reader because the pictures and colors make it easy to compare the differences between a group of things.

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ Similarly, tables and charts are used to summarize important information in an organized way. ➔ These are much more compact, but can include more information! ★ What animal has a lifespan of up to 25 years?

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ The Glossary is always found at the end of the book! ➔ It lists the definition of keywords mentioned in the book. ➔ They list the words in alphabetical order to make them easier to find. ★ What are predators?

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Source: www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Education-Endowment ➔ The Index is found at the end Similarly, the words and phrases of books after the Glossary. are in alphabetical order! ➔ it lists keywords and phrases and the pages where they are mentioned, but unlike the glossary it does not provide definitions! ★ What page would I go to find more information on friction?

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