A Webquest on Common Text Features

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A Webquest on Common Text Features

• By Debbie Shoulders
• 6th Grade Reading

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What are text features?

• Parts of a Book
• Structure in Writing

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Practicing - Try these activities.

• Read All About It
• Reading Headlines
• Taking Notes
• Captions Tell the Story
• What Are They Selling?
• Looking For the Fine Print

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What can you do to become better at using common
text features?

• Reading Strategy Checklist
• Use Signal Words.

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Test Yourself

• Choose a news story from the following BBC
  Skillwise. Read the article carefully and follow
  the link to Do the Quiz.
• Take quiz and click on Print this Test, and
  print.
• BBC Skillwise
• BBC Skilwise - Number stories