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Nonfiction Graphic Features. Ms. Osborne Mountain View ES 5 th Grade. Standards to Cover…. ELA5R1 c. Identifies and uses knowledge of common graphic features (e.g., charts, maps, diagrams, captions, and illustrations). Essential Questions.
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Nonfiction Graphic Features Ms. Osborne Mountain View ES 5th Grade
Standards to Cover… • ELA5R1 c. Identifies and uses knowledge of common graphic features (e.g., charts, maps, diagrams, captions, and illustrations).
Essential Questions • How can graphic features help me understand what I am reading? • How can I use the features and organization of a book to help me comprehend?
Where will you find these nonfiction features? • In your textbooks (science, social studies, math…) • Newspapers • Magazines
What are nonfiction text features? • Text features are simply tools to help you comprehend what you are reading!! • We are going to focus on the following features… • Captions • Labels • Comparisons • Fonts • Headings And • Graphics Try looking only at these features before you read…they will help you focus on the main idea of the section or chapter!!!
Let’s start with captions! • What are captions? • Have you ever noticed the writing around pictures in a book that you are reading? • Well those are captions • They usually are around a picture to explain what the picture is about.
Locate a different caption in your science text book and share it with your neighbor. • How did you know that it was a caption?
OK…let’s move on to labels! • What are labels? • They are also part of a picture…they actually point out specific features in a picture.
Now it is your turn to locate a label! • Show your neighbor! • How did you know that it was a label and not a caption?
Ok…let’s move onto comparisons! • Do you know what it means to compare something? • Well a comparison in a text book, magazine, or newspaper is the same thing.. It shows two or more objects to compare size (example: showing a hand and comparing it to the size of a paperclip)
Your turn…locate and share a comparison! • Again…how did you know…??
Check up time!! • What is a label? • What is a caption? • How do you know the difference between the two? • What is a comparison? Give me an example…
Let’s keep on going… • Now what do you know about fonts?? • Why would different types of fonts be important (they are not just used to make things pretty ) • Fonts are different ways of showing important words. • What are some different ways of doing this? • BOLD, italics, highlight, underline, ALL CAPS
Headings • These are everywhere!!! • They are normally at the beginning of a section/chapter to tell you what you are about to read.
How are headings helpful? • If you choose a heading from your Social Studies or Science book and turn it into a question, it will give you a purpose to read! For example… • What are “Single-Celled Organisms?” • This will tell you what to look for when you are reading!!! WOW
Find a heading in chapter one of your science book… • Look at the heading and form a question… • Now read the section and let’s see if changing the heading into a question helps you understand what you are reading… • What do you think??? (I give it two thumbs up!)
Ok…last one…Graphics… • You see these everywhere…especially in your math book….have any ideas of what I am talking about? • You got it…pie graphs, line graphs, bar graphs, pictographs, maps, charts, tables • How are these helpful? • It makes data and information easy to read and understand!!
Let’s review… • What is a caption? • What is a label? • How are headings useful? • Name a few different ways to show that words or phrases are important… • How are graphics useful? Give a few graphics that we see often… • What is the last feature that we need to review… • Comparisons…how are these used?