1. Understanding Text Features
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Understanding Text Features
Photographs
Headings
Titles
Captions
Illustrations

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What is a feature?
The word feature is used in many different contexts, or situations.
A feature is an important part of something.

3. What are some features of this coral reef?
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What is a feature?
What are some features of this coral reef?
Anemone
Rocks
Coral
Water
Sand
…and so on

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Text Features
Text features are parts of text that draw your attention to important information.

5. Titles The title of a piece of writing tells what it is mostly about.
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Titles
The title of a piece of writing tells what it is mostly about.

6. Titles Look at the books you have. Notice:
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Titles
Look at the books you have. Notice:
-How are the titles written? What kind of font do they use?
-Are the titles long or short?
-Are there subtitles?

7. Can you find the title of this article?
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Can you find the title of this article?

8. Can you find the title of this article?
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Can you find the title of this article?
Title

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Headings
Headings introduce topics in text. They are often written in bold print, large print, or colorful text.

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Headings
Can you find the headings?

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Headings
Heading
Heading
Heading

12. Heading: The title or topic of a document, article, chapter etc.
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Title VS Heading
Title: The name of a book, film, musical piece, painting, a publication or other work of art.
Heading: The title or topic of a document, article, chapter etc.

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Bold and Italic print
Bold print is print that is darker or brighter than the rest of the sentence. Authors use bold print to signal important information or new words.
Italic print looks like this. Authors use italics to signal important words, new ideas, or foreign words.

14. Can you find the italicized words?
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Can you find the italicized words?

15. Can you find the italicized words?
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Can you find the italicized words?
Italicized word

16. Can you find the italicized words?
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Can you find the italicized words?
Italicized word
Italicized word

17. Can you find the bold print words?
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Can you find the bold print words?

18. Can you find the bold print words?
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Can you find the bold print words?
Bold print

19. Can you find the bold print words?
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Can you find the bold print words?
Bold print
Bold print

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Bold and italic print
Look for bold and italicized print in your books.
-How often are words marked with this kind of print?
-Is there a glossary that defines these words?
-Why would it be important to pay attention to these words?

21. Illustrations and Photographs
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Illustrations and Photographs
Illustrations are drawings. They are created by an artist. Illustrations can be very basic, or they can be very detailed.
Photographs are taken by a photographer. They show real objects in real settings.

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Photographs
How does the photograph help the reader understand this text?

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Illustrations
Pictures help readers to understand ideas. Why do you think the author chose to illustrate this text instead of using a photograph?

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Illustrations
Illustrations can do what photographs cannot. Often, artists will use illustrations to show things from the past or simplify ideas.

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Illustrations
How does the illustration help a reader to understand this text?

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Captions
Captions are found underneath illustrations or photographs. They explain what’s in the picture.

27. Can you find the caption?
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Captions
Can you find the caption?

28. Can you find the caption?
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Captions
Can you find the caption?
Caption

29. Other text features What other text features can you think of?
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Other text features
What other text features can you think of?

30. Text Features Graphic aids Glossary Maps Table of Contents Timelines
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Text Features
Can you find these other text features in the books?
Graphic aids
Maps
Timelines
Bulleted lists
Glossary
Table of Contents
Index
Sidebars
Captions

31. Text Features What have you learned about text features?
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Text Features
What have you learned about text features?
What do you still wonder about text features?
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