1. Informational Text Features
Print Features, Graphic Aids, and Organization

2. Why do we need to know about informational text features?
They provide the reader with information in various forms. We must know what to look for so we don’t miss something important.

3. Text Feature: Types of Print Bold print, colored print, italics
Purpose: Help the reader by signaling, “Look at me! I’m important!”

4. Text feature: Titles and Headings
Purpose: They announce the topic that will be covered.

5. Text Feature: Labels
Purpose: Help the reader identify a picture or photograph and/or its parts.
Example:

6. Text Feature: Captions
Purpose: Help the reader better understand a picture
Example:
Dema, a baby Sumatran tiger, licks Nia, a baby orangutan.

7. Text Feature: Bullets
Purpose: Helps readers identify items in a list.

8. Text Feature: Fact Boxes
Purpose: Gives the reader additional information about the topic and puts it in a box so it catches your eye.
Example:
FACT
Bullfrogs got their name because someone thought the male's deep call sounded like a bull mooing. These frogs can be huge, sometimes growing as big as eight inches (20 centimeters) and weighing up to 1.5 pounds (0.6 kilograms).

9. Text Feature: Diagrams
Purpose: It is a drawing or plan that helps the reader understand how something works.
Example:

10. Text Feature: Flow Diagram
Purpose: Help the reader understand the sequence (order) of steps.
Example:

11. Text Feature: Size Comparisons
Purpose: Help the reader understand the size of one thing by comparing it to the size of something familiar.
Example:

12. Text Feature: Magnification/Close ups
Purpose: Help the reader see details in something small.
Example:

13. Text Feature: Photographs and Illustrations
Purpose: Help the reader understand exactly what something looks like.
Example:

14. Text Feature: Cross Section/Cut Away
Purpose: Help the reader understand something by looking at it from the inside.
Example:

15. Text Feature: Graphs
Purpose: Use pictures and symbols to show information and to make a point.
Example:

16. Text Feature: Table Example:
Purpose: Helps the reader view facts by placing them in parallel columns.
Example:

17. Text Feature: Timeline
Purpose: To represent key historical events in order.
Example:

18. Text Feature: Maps
Purpose: Help the reader understand where things are in the world.
Example:

19. Text Feature: Table of Contents
Purpose: Help the reader identify key topics in the book in the order they are presented.
Example:
Table of Contents
Chapter Page
Becoming a Writer 8
Habits That Enhance Writing 11
Tips on Writing 14
The Narrative Essay Plan 17
Using the Writing Traits 20
Editing and Revising 25
Publishing Your Essay 30

20. Text Feature: Introduction/Deck
Purpose: It gives you a “Heads Up” about what you will be reading about.
Example:

21. Text Feature: Index
Purpose: An alphabetical list of almost everything covered in the text, with page numbers.
Example:
Index
Amphibians p.13
Bats p. 18
Diet p. 12, 14, 16
Insects p. 7
Mammals p. 10
Snakes p. 8

22. Text Feature: Glossary
Purpose: Help the reader define words contained in the text.
Example:
Glossary
Adaptation- a change that a living thing goes through so that it fits in better in its environment
Extinct- died out
Species- a group of related animals or plants
Survive- to stay alive through some dangerous event

23. Text Feature: Pronunciation Guide
Purpose: Helps the reader pronounce, or say a word. correctly.
Example:  
Pronunciation [pruh-nuhn-see-ey-shuhn]

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