Understanding Textual Aids

What are textual aids?

• Spoken strategies for storytelling

• Tools that help decorate texts

• Materials that support understanding of texts

• Devices that confuse readers

What type of textual aid provides the name of a text or topic?

• Graph

• Title

• Table

• Illustration

Which of the following is NOT a type of textual aid?

• Title

• Illustration

• Poem

• Graph

What do illustrations mainly help readers do?

• Create stories

• Memorize definitions

• Visually retain and understand concepts

• Replace text completely

Tables are mainly used to:

• Show videos

• Summarize stories

• Present data in rows and columns

• Compare characters

Which graph is best used to show trends over time?

• Pie graph

• Line graph

• Pictograph

• Bar graph

What does a bar graph use to represent values?

• Arrows

• Text boxes

• Bars

• Numbers only

A pie graph is used to:

• Show cause and effect

• Illustrate comparisons

• Show parts of a whole

• List pros and cons

Which graph uses images to represent data?

• Line graph

• Venn diagram

• Pictograph

• Flowchart

What kind of map shows boundaries like cities and states?

• Physical map

• Weather map

• Political map

• Thematic map