Nonfiction Text Features

Nonfiction Text Features

​8F analyzes how text features are used in non-fiction texts

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#TIL how to identify graphic elements in a timeline and the purpose they serve

​Success Criteria:

explain the purpose of text features and identify the following text features: photographs/pictures bolded text captions describe what the text features are doing.

Multiple Choice

Text features are important because they_____

• help you make sense of what you are reading.

• keep data together.

• make it more fun to read.

• develop a sense of purpose.

Multiple Choice

 

________________ tells you what the book, chapter, or article is called.

• Title

• Caption

• Photograph

• Timeline

Multiple Choice

Which text feature would you use to find the names of all chapters in a book and the pages where they started?

• Table Of Contents

• Glossary

• Illastrations

• Diagram

Open Ended

Explain in your own words why text features are important when reading non-fiction texts.

​Text Features: Timelines

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Timelines are great graphic organizers because of their linear, but discrete, nature. Each event is separated on the line itself – and two events can occupy the same time, just on opposite sides of the line. Whether looking at a story or the history of transportation innovation, timelines are really valuable for understanding the unfolding of events, causes and effects, and much more.

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Remember: Chrono = Time; Logic = Order

Texts that are told chronologically or in order of time

​Text Structures: Chronological Order 

Text structures are ways that texts can be organized. Some common types include chronological order, cause and effect, and compare and contrast When information in a passage is organized by the time in which each event occurred, it is organized chronologically. Nonfiction passages that are organized chronologically often contains dates. The events in the passages are organized chronologically, in the order of time.​

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Remember: Chrono = Time; Logic = Order

Texts that are told chronologically or in order of time

Multiple Choice

How does the timeline graphically represent the order of events?

• Similar events are grouped together, year by year

• Events are arranged in order of importance, from left to right

• Events are arranged in chronological order, from left to right

​Timeline of the Olympic Games

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It is arranged in chronological order going from left to right.​

​Chronological - (of a record of events) starting with the earliest and following the order in which they occurred.

Multiple Choice

When did the first recorded Olympic Games take place?

• 1000 BC

• 776 BC

• A.D 1351

• 1500 BC

Multiple Choice

Shows main events in chronological order or time order

• Label

• Index

• Diagram

• Timeline

Multiple Choice

Bold and Italicized words are important because

• They show us what words are important to the text

• They create visual appeal within an article or story

• They are the topics found in the table of contents

• They tell us what the photographs and illustrations are about

Match

Look at the timeline and match the terms that show the specific purpose of the graphic element.

• Photographs

• Boldface dates

• Annotations or captions

images to show events on the timeline

enable the reader to locate events in sequence

give detail facts about the events

• images to show events on the timeline

• enable the reader to locate events in sequence

• give detail facts about the events

Open Ended

What is the specific purpose of the ANNOTATIONS in the timeline?

Example: 

This morning was crazy. My alarm clock was set for PM instead of AM, so I woke up really late. I just threw on some clothes and ran out the door. I rode my bike as fast as I could and thought that I was going to be late for sure, but when I got there everyone was outside and there were fire trucks all lined up in front of school. I guess somebody pulled the fire alarm before class started. It worked out though, because nobody really noticed or minded that I was tardy.​

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​Create your own in Schoology based on a text.

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​On Your Own: Creating Timelines from Chronological Texts

1. Read one of the Chronological texts in the folder “Creating Timelines from Chronological Texts” folder in Schoology. 

2. List the events from the texts in chronological order (you may use Google Docs or the graphic organizer for notes).

3. Create a Google Draw timeline that graphically represents the chronological text that you read. 

4. Submit your work in Schoology.

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