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Text Features

Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.) | Grade Level: 3
Lesson Length: 15 minutes or less
Keywords/Tags: Text Features
Lesson Description: In this lesson, students will learn the different kinds of text features and how they can help us learn more information about a topic. Some text features include, headings, titles, photographs, captions, maps, graphs, and more.

Other ELAGSE3RI5: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars,rnhyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic quickly andrnefficiently.

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Video : Text Features

Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.

Description: This video describes why author's use text features in non-fiction texts. Students will learn the different types of text features and how they can be used.

Quiz : Text Features

Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.

Question #1

Text features are special elements found in nonfiction texts that the author includes to draw our attention to important details in the text.

A) True

B) False

Question #2

Which of the following is NOT a text feature?

A) Heading

B) Diagram

C) Glossary

D) Fiction

E) Map

Question #3

Titles, headings, and subheadings tell the reader what the text is about.

A) True

B) False

Question #4

Photographs do NOT help the reader picture what the text is about.

A) True

B) False

Question #5

Labels can help give the reader specific information about a photograph.

A) Yes

B) No

Question #6

How can the author draw the reader's attention to important words in the text?

A) By using photographs

B) By using exclamation points

C) By using captions and labels

D) By using all capital letters

E) By using bold, italicized, and underlined words

Question #7

If the title of a book is "Life Cycle of a Frog," would you lea about the life cycle of a turtle?

A) Yes

B) No

Question #8

The heading of a page in a book is "Dogs: What They Eat." What would you lea about on this page?

A) What dogs look like

B) What dogs eat

C) The many types of dogs

D) Which dog is the best

E) How dogs sleep

Question #9

Why would a photograph with labels better help you understand the parts of a flower?

A) So you know the parts of a flower and what they look like

B) So you can see a pretty picture

C) So you don't have to read the story

D) So you can like flowers better

E) So you can show other people

Question #10

Text features do NOT help the reader get additonal information that is not included in the main text.

A) True

B) False

Description: The following quiz is about the text features explained in the video.

Resources : Text Features Resources

Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit each link to learn more about this lesson.

Text Features Google Slides
A google slideshow with examples of text features.

Text Features Scavenger Hunt
This is a google slides activity with a passage and the reader must find the text features.

Text Features Fill in the Blank
Google slides activity to fill in the blank about the text feature.

Description: The following includes three resources for additional information about text features.

Standards:

Video : Text Features

Quiz : Text Features

Resources : Text Features Resources