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Graphic features Of Informational Text

Graphic features Of Informational Text. Something to ponder…. What can I learn from graphics?. What are the types of graphics you might discover in informational text?. Tables Diagrams Maps Charts Graphs Keys / legends (including symbols) Pictures . Names of countries

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Graphic features Of Informational Text

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  1. Graphic features Of Informational Text

  2. Something to ponder… What can I learn from graphics?

  3. What are the types of graphics you might discover in informational text? • Tables • Diagrams • Maps • Charts • Graphs • Keys / legends (including symbols) • Pictures

  4. Names of countries • Where they are located • Where Africa is located • Compare size of countries What can I learn from maps?

  5. Different parts of the body • Location of various parts • The ankle bone is connected to the shin bone! What can I learn from diagrams?

  6. How different countries compare • Rates for individual areas of the world • How females and males compare What can I learn from graph?

  7. What can I learn from chart or table? • The different signsfor Chinese Zodiac, the names, the corresponding years • An explanation of the signs

  8. What can I learn from keys and legends? • All the different areas as shown on a map • The different boundaries • Types of sites

  9. What can I learn from pictures? • Let’s work on an activity – Typhoon Picture Activity

  10. How do the graphic features of a text help you understand the topic? • Graphic features give you additional information • explanation in condensed form

  11. What are the most effective ways to use textual features? • Preview • Questioning • Summarizing • Reviewing Does this sound familiar?

  12. Ticket out the door … • In your SS textbook, find the following and list what page they are on and summarize the information … • 1 graph • 2 charts or tables • 3 maps

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