Nonfiction Text FEatures

Nonfiction Text Features

By Aadrien Glover

Look at the article, what are some characteristics or features that you notice about the article?

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What is the meaning of characteristics?

What Do You See?

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​Title

​Heading

​Photograph

​Illustration

​Labels

​bold print

I can identify nonfiction text features and their purpose to better read and comprehend a text.

Learning Target

Why are nonfiction text features significant or important?

EQ

Essential Question & Learning Target

What Are They?

Nonfiction Text Features

• A nonfiction text gives you factual information.​

• A nonfiction text includes text features that help readers​ to comprehend a passage more clearly and easily.

  • For example:

    • diagrams, photos,​ special fonts

• ​Nonfiction text features:

  • Highlight important information

  • ​Make the reading more understandable

  • ​Help readers make sense of a reading

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Purpose: identifies the topic of the text.

Tells what the text will be about.

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​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Title

Purpose: divides the text into sections and tells what the section will be about.

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​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Subheading

Purpose: highlight or emphasize words that are ​important to the topic.

​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Bold Print or Italics

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Purpose: give extra information or an interesting fact about a certain topic

​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Sidebar

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Multiple Choice

This text feature shows emphasizes specific words that are important to the text.

• Bold or Italics

• Sidebar

• Title

• Subheading

Fill in the Blank

A [BLANK] identifies the topic and tells what the text will be about.

Multiple Choice

This feature makes information easier to find by dividing the text into sections.

• Bold or Italics

• Title

• Subheading

• Sidebar

Poll

True or False: A sidebar explains what a photograph or illustration is about.

• True

• False

Purpose: to show what something look likes, taken with a camera

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​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Photograph

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Purpose: to show what something look likes, drawn by an artist

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​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Illustration

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Purpose: tell the names of certain parts of a photograph or an illustration

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​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Labels

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Purpose: explains what a photograph or illustration is about

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​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Caption

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Open Ended

What is the difference between a photograph and an illustration?

Open Ended

What is the difference between labels and captions?

Purpose: organize and help compare information

in a visual way​

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​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Graph

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Purpose: organizes facts and numbers in a visual way that is easier to read

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​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Table

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Multiple Choice

Although both are visual representations of information, [BLANK] helps to organize and compare information, while [BLANK] organizes facts and numbers making information easier to read.

• Graph, Sidebar

• Table, Graph

• Graphs, Table

• Caption, Labels

1.​ Identify the text features.

2. ​Based on the table from the text, what are three products that Carver made from the peanut?

3. ​Explain how this text feature helps make the reading more understandable.

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Let's read a part of an article about George Washington Carver.

Guided Practice

Independent Practice

You will be given 10 minutes to read and complete the worksheet Wild, Wild Weather. Be sure to identify the text features and answer the questions on the other side.​

​https://youtu.be/nW-s2Ailg1s

Let's Review

Learning Target: I can identify nonfiction text features and their purpose to better read and comprehend a text.

1. What is a nonfiction text?

2. Why are nonfiction text features important?

3. Give an example of a feature and tell how it is used in a story.​

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Open Ended

The Important Thing

Directions: Copy the sentence frame and fill-in-bank with things that you learned from this lesson.

Three important ideas/things from the lesson today are ---, ---, and ---, but the most important thing I learned today is ---.