Text Features and Signposts

Using an nonfiction book in the room, find a caption. You have 30 seconds!

There are many bolded words in the nonfiction book that you are reading. Where can you find the definitions to these words?

Using an nonfiction book in the room, find a graph or illustration. You have 1 minute!

When researching a person, you want to learn more about their childhood. Where can you look in the book to find where it talks about their childhood?

Name the Text Feature!

What are these punctuation marks called? " "

"In 1979, Iranian militants took over the U.S. embassy that was in Tehran. These militants held 52 Americans as hostages for 444 days." The author used these numbers/amounts because...

Name the Text Feature!

Authors quote others directly either as a(n) _______ or personal perspective.

Using an nonfiction book in the room, find a table of contents. You have 30 seconds!

These two things help to quickly tell you what a certain section of a book is talking about.

Name the Text Feature!

Authors use numbers or words to show comparisons or create a(n) ______ in the reader's mind.

Name the Text Feature!

True or False: When you see a picture or graph in a nonfiction text, it is okay to just glance over it and not look carefully because it is probably not important.

Name the Text Feature!

Using an nonfiction book in the room, find at least one word that is bold or italicized. Headings and subheadings do not count! You have 1 minute!

Why is it so important to look out for quoted words when reading nonfiction texts?

There is a certain keyword about a topic that you are looking for. Instead of looking through the entire book to find where it talks about this keyword, where could you look to quickly figure this out?

Using an nonfiction book in the room, find an index. You have 30 seconds!