Teaching First-Grade TEXT FEATURES Using LIVING IN RURAL COMMUNITIES
Features that help students understand how an informational text is organized:
FEATUREPURPOSE
Confirms title, author’s name, and publisher
Title page
Helps students identify main topics on a quick pass through the text
Chapter name, heading, or subheading
Page number
Helps students with sequence of ideas and aids in using the index
Defines new and important words
Glossary
Index
Lists the main ideas in the text, with page numbers to help students find them
Visual aids that help students understand informational texts:
VISUAL AID
Photo, drawing, or illustration
PURPOSE
Shows how something in the text looked or might have looked
Features that point out important or additional information:
FEATUREPURPOSE
Bold print
Tells students a word is new and important; sometimes a glossary term
CaptionPoints out what’s in a photo, a drawing, or an illustration and relates it to the informational text; often gives more information
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TITLE PAGE: This is
the first page of the book.
It tells you what the name,
or title, of the book is. It
also tells you who wrote
the book. This person is
called the author.
TITLE: This is the
title of the book. It
tells you what the
book is about.
by Kristin Sterling
AUTHOR
a Lerner Publications Company · Minneapolis
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PHOTOS: The photos
or pictures in a book
show what the words, or
text, describe. Looking
at photos can help you
understand the meaning
of the text.
PAGE
NUMBERS: Page
TEXT OR MAIN
TEXT: These are
the words on a page
that describe the main
ideas of the book.
Main text is usually
smaller than chapter
titles or headings.
A community is a place
where people feel at home.
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numbers are on the
lower part of most
pages in a book. They
tell you how far along
you are in the book.
They also help you
find information from
the index.
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BOLD PRINT:
Words in bold print
have thick, black
letters. You might
not know what
these words mean.
They are usually
in a glossary, or list
with meanings, at
the end of the book.
I live in a rural community.
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There are different kinds
of rural areas:
HEADINGS:
These words separate
your book into parts.
Headings are usually
in bigger type and
are at the top of a
page. A heading tells
you what’s to come in
that part of the book.
CAPTION:
These words tell
you about the
picture on the
page. A caption is
usually close to the
picture it goes with.
A reservation is land set aside
for Native Americans.
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Glossary
GLOSSARY: This is a
list of important new words
that you have learned by
reading the book. Each
glossary word is in bold
letters. After the bold
word is the meaning, or
definition, of the word.
You can find the glossary
near the end of the book.
GLOSSARY
WORD
community – a place where
people live together and feel
at home
country – an open area
outside of towns or cities
DEFINITION
crops – plants the farmer
grows and sells
neighbor – a person who lives
near your home
rural – far from the city, a
place with open land and
few people
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INDEX: This list at the
end of a book follows the
order of the alphabet.
The index helps you find
main ideas. The words in
the index are followed
by page numbers. These
numbers tell you where to
go in the book to find the
main ideas.
Index
barn – 11
country – 5, 6, 16, 17
crops – 10, 20
farming – 9, 10, 20
land – 8, 9
roads – 13
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