14 (D): Text Features (Readiness)

Reading/comprehension Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text, and provide evidence from text to support their understanding
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10(D) use  titles and illustrations to make predictions about text	14 (D) use text features (e.g., titles, tables of contents, illustrations) to locate specific information in text	14 (D) use text features(e.g. , table of contents, index, headings) to locate specific information in text	13 (D) use text features (e.g., bold print, captions, key words, italics) to locate information and make and verify predictions about contents of text	11(D) use multiple text features (e.g., guide words, topic and concluding sentences) to gain an overview of the contents of   text and to locate information.	11(D) use multiple text features and graphics to gain an overview of the contents of text and to locate information.
Use text features (e.g., titles ) to locate specific information in text Use text features (e.g., tables) to locate specific information in text Use text features (e.g., illustrations) to locate specific information in text

Activities:

• Comprehension Toolkit - book #1:

           Lesson 2- Notice and Think about Nonfiction Features
           Lesson 3 - Explore Nonfiction Features

• Discuss the text features using a non-fiction big book ( Amazing Water - Science) table of contents, index.  Then introduce the descriptors and display posters from first class.

         First class: curriculum and instruction, elem. lang. arts, curriculum, reading, text features

• Get students in groups and give them fiction and non-fiction books for them to sort.  Walk around and listen to their conversations as to why they placed the book in a certain stack.  Math connection:  Graph the results.
• Interactive Read-Alouds (Linda Hoyt):  Story Elements - Distinguish Fiction/Nonfiction pg. 95 

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