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Reading - Non-fiction text is the target genre this nine weeks. Now we are reading to be informed on a topic.
Reading - Non-fiction text is the target genre this nine weeks. Now we are reading to be informed on a topic.
SOME COMMON TEXT FEATURES WITHIN NON-FICTION:
SOME COMMON TEXT FEATURES WITHIN NON-FICTION:
- Captions: Help you better understand a picture or photograph
- Comparisons: These sentences help you to picture something {Example: A whale shark is a little bit bigger than a school bus.}
- Glossary: Helps you define words that are in the book
- Graphics: Charts, graphs, or cutaways are used to help you understand what the author is trying to tell you
- Illustrations/Photographs: Help you to know exactly what something looks like
- Index: This is an alphabetical list of ideas that are in the book. It tells you what page the idea is on.
- Labels: These help you identify a picture or a photograph and its parts
- Maps: help you to understand where places are in the world
- Special Print: When a word is bold, in italics, or underlined, it is an important word for you to know
- Subtitles: These headings help you to know what the next section will be about
- Table of Contents: Helps you identify key topics in the book in the order they are presented
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