Nonfiction Text Features

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Nonfiction Text Features

• Mrs. Osborne
• Mountain View ES
• 5th grade

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Standards to cover

• ELA5R1.b
• Identifies and uses knowledge of common textual
  features (e.g., paragraphs, topic sentences,
  concluding sentences, glossary).

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Essential Questions

• What text features help me comprehend
  informational text?
• How can I use the features and organization of a
  book to help me comprehend?

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Do you remember where we find nonfiction
features?Do you remember what the graphic
features are?

• Yesour textbooks, newspapers, and magazines.
• Captions, labels, graphics, headings, fonts, and
  comparisons.
• Lets start connecting these!!

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What are text features?

• Paragraph
• Topic sentence
• Concluding sentence
• Glossary
• Index
• Table of Contents

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Lets start with paragraphs!

• How do you know when a paragraph starts?
• It is indented

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Now lets get a little more in-depth and look at
the topic sentence!

• Why is a topic sentence important?
• It will help you define the main idea of the
  paragraph which will help you comprehend what you
  are reading.
• Lets look at the paragraph below and locate the
  topic sentence.

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Lets try another!
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Ok, lets move to concluding sentences
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lets look at the glossary of a book.

• Why is the glossary important?
• It helps us understand unknown vocabulary!
• Locate the glossary in your science book!
• How is it organized?
• A to Z

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The Index

• What is an index used for?
• It is an alphabetical list of almost everything
  written in the text, with page numbers so you can
  find the information.
• Locate the index in your science book
• to

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T.O.C.(table of contents)

• Where is this normally located in a text book?
• Yes, at the beginning!
• The T.O.C. helps the reader find key topics in
  the book in the order that they come in!
• What is the difference in the T.O.C. and the
  index of a book??

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Now we are going to try some examples on the
overheadlets see how you do!!