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Informational Text

Informational Text. Text Features. There are 4 main kinds of text features that help you find information in your textbooks: Headings Keywords Captions Footnotes. Heading. What is a heading?

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Informational Text

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  1. Informational Text

  2. Text Features • There are 4 main kinds of text features that help you find information in your textbooks: • Headings • Keywords • Captions • Footnotes

  3. Heading • What is a heading? • The title of a section of writing (like a chapter, a section inside of a chapter, a newspaper or magazine article, etc.)

  4. Find the Heading:

  5. Keywords • Keywords are important words from a text, usually vocabulary words or names of important people, events, or ideas. • Keywords are usually in bold and/or underlined in textbooks. • Find the keywords in the following example:

  6. Find the Keywords

  7. Captions • Captions are located under pictures, tables, graphs, forms, and other images. • Captions tell you what’s going on in the pictures. • What is the caption in the following example?

  8. Find the Caption

  9. Footnotes • Footnotes happen when the author wants to give you more info about something in the text. • They’re usually used to explain things like vocabulary words or to give background information. • Footnotes are usually marked with a small superscript number like this1 • Find the Footnote in the following example:

  10. Why? • Why is it important to know about text features like headings, keywords, captions, and footnotes? • They help you find information quickly • They help show you important information • They’re like road signs pointing you to what you need to know.

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