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Reading Informational Text

Reading Informational Text . Nonfiction Text. Looks different from fiction text such as a novel or picture book How?. How?. May be chapter titles and section headers or sub-titles that preview information. Pages have words in a variety of fonts and font sizes.

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Reading Informational Text

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  1. Reading Informational Text

  2. Nonfiction Text • Looks different from fiction text such as a novel or picture book • How?

  3. How? • May be chapter titles and section headers or sub-titles that preview information. • Pages have words in a variety of fonts and font sizes. • Bold or italic fonts may be used to signal important words or phrases. • Marks may be used to show how to pronounce words. • It may be different but it is also fun to read

  4. Graphic Aids Are Used • Maps, charts, diagrams, photographs may be included to illustrate or summarize information. • Captions or labels must be examined carefully for relevant information.

  5. Vocabulary is Different • There may be more words that are unfamiliar • Words may be longer – more syllables

  6. When You Read Nonfiction • You learn information • It is often called informational text • Science and Social Studies texts are an example • There is a great deal of information to be understood and remembered

  7. What Can Help You? • Special features are used within the text to help you locate, understand and remember information that you have read • These are called text features

  8. Text Features • Each text feature is a tool which helps you do your work • But first you have to learn about them and how they work

  9. Text Features • Text Organizers - index, preface, table of contents, glossary, appendix • Titles, headings, sub-headings, bullets, labels

  10. More Text Features • Fonts and Effects – size, italics, bold, colour • Illustrations, Photographs and Captions • Graphics – maps, charts, graphs

  11. Let’s See Some Text Features

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