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What are Informational Texts?
Informational Texts can also be called nonfiction. Nonfiction texts contain
facts. You use nonfiction texts every day! You may read a label on your
cereal, directions to operate the copy machine, a magazine, a newspaper, or
even a recipe book. Informational texts include the following kinds of texts:
Biographies: Stories about the lives of people
Magazine Articles: Facts about a topic
Procedural Texts: Tell you how to do things
Persuasive Texts: Try to get you to do something or agree with a point
Science Texts: Facts about animals, plants, planets, and more!
Social Studies Texts: Facts about people and places then and now.
Newspaper Articles: Facts about what is happening around us and in the
world.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries: Information in alphabetical order that
can be used to find the meaning of words and information about topics.
Texts based on Questions and Answers: Blogs and books that have
questions and answers.
***How to Select a Nonfiction text
5 Finger Rule
Talk to the public librarian
Demands on the Reader
Nonfiction texts require readers to:
Find information.
Follow events and directions in order.
Think about the text as you read.
Tell about what you read and remember important details.
Understand how the text is written and how information can be written in
sequence, compare and contrast, cause and effect, problem and solution, and
description and categories.
Look quickly to find information.
Use text features to find information. (maps, charts, diagrams, headings,
timelines, titles, captions, glossary, index, photographs, and more!)
Tell how ideas and facts go together.
Use things they have already learned to help them understand new
information.
Know the difference between fact and fiction.
Find and use information from pictures, maps, diagrams, and other text
features.
Demands of the Test
The Ohio Achievement Test requires readers to:
Students use text features (e.g., titles, index, pictures) to understand
informational texts (e.g., maps, instructions, non-fiction). They know how to
draw conclusions from information in charts, graphs and diagrams.
Students gain information from reading to learn about a subject, to do a job, to
make decisions and to accomplish a task. Students need to apply the reading
process to various types of informational texts, including essays, magazines,
newspapers, textbooks, instruction manuals, consumer and workplace
documents, reference materials, multimedia and electronic resources. They
learn to find and read text features, such as titles, subtitles and visual aids, to
make predictions and build text knowledge. They learn to read diagrams,
charts, graphs, maps and displays in text as sources of additional information.
Students use their knowledge of the way texts are written to organize content
information, analyze it and draw inferences from it. Strategic readers learn to
recognize arguments, bias, stereotyping and propaganda in informational text
sources.
OAA Third Grade Question
These sentences are from the selection.
“This dance was performed when the Maori people went to war. Originally,
New Zealand was a British colony. The people of the island, however, fought
for their independence and won it in 1907.”
Which question do these sentences answer?
A. How many people live in New Zealand?
B. What are the dance movements of the Haka?
C. Whom did the Maori fight in order to gain their freedom?
Third Grade Family Reading Academy
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Nonfiction Reading Response Journal
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What is the main idea of what you just read?
Give two details about the main idea.
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What conclusions can you make about what
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Compare what you just read with another
book you read about the same subject.
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Ask someone a question about what you just
read.
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Retell in your own words what you just read.
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What are you wondering at this point?
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Summarize in one or two sentences what you
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In what ways can you connect what you read
about in the text to your own life?
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What is one of the most important points
made in the text? Why do you think it is
important?
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Find a word that you do not know in the text.
What do you think it means? Look up the
definition to see if you were correct.
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All About Me
My Text Feature Book
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Table of Contents
What are text features?
Labels and Pictures
Tables and Graphs
Timelines
Headings
Bold Faced Words
Diagrams and Text Boxes
Photographs and Captions
Glossary
Index
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What are Text Features?
Text features occur in many nonfiction
texts and are used by the author to help
readers better understand important
parts of the text. When you read
nonfiction texts it is very important to
understand the text features because they
will help you better understand what you
read.
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Labels and Pictures
Pictures are drawn and show key ideas from the text. Labels are words that
identify the parts of pictures. Draw a picture of yourself and label your eyes, ears,
mouth, hair, and nose.
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Tables and graphs are used to display data that has been collected. Survey your
family or friends to see what their favorite foods are. Write the information in the
table and then make a bar graph to show which foods most people you know like.
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Timelines
Timelines show important things that happened on specific dates and times in the
order that they occurred. Even if a timeline does not say the date you can figure it
out by looking before and after what occurred. Make a timeline about your life or
year!
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Headings
Headings tell what the entire section or part of the text will be about. Headings
provide a clue to the main idea. Write a paragraph about your favorite thing to go
with the heading.
My Favorite Thing
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Bold Faced Words
Bold-faced words are words that the author has selected that are key words you
need to understand. Bold-faced words are often defined in the glossary and help you
understand the main message of the text. Write fun facts about you and choose 2-3
words to make extra dark (bold), you will write the meaning of these words in your
glossary.
Fun Facts
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Diagrams and Text Boxes
Diagrams are used to show a slice of an object you cannot usually see through.
Diagrams help us to better understand the parts of things. Text Boxes provide more
information about things discussed in the text and can also be additional interesting
facts. Make a diagram of your house. Add a text box that has a fun fact about a
room in your house.
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Photographs and Captions
Photographs are taken with cameras and help readers see what the author is
describing. Captions tell what the photographs are about and sometimes give more
information about the photograph. Add a photograph of you or your family and
write a caption about where the photograph was taken and what was happening at
that time.
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Glossary
A glossary provides definitions for key terms. Write the definition for each text
feature in your own words and then add the boldfaced words that you created with
definitions.
boldfaced word
caption
diagram
heading
label
heading
timeline
title
tells what the entire article or
text is about
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Index
An index tells pages where you can find information
about key ideas or items within the text.
Family Photograph p. 10
Favorite Foods p. 5
Fun Facts p. 8
My Picture p. 4
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Woodpeckers have sharp bills for drilling
into wood, and short, stiff tails which
help prop them up against tree trunks
and branches. Woodpeckers also have
very long tongues, which help them get
at insects deep within trees.
Woodpeckers are often heard drumming
loudly on trees before they are seen.
Woodpeckers can even become pests if
they learn to drum on siding of a house.
Which of these questions does the
selection answer?
A. How do woodpeckers get food?
B. Where do woodpeckers live?
C. Why are woodpeckers becoming
extinct?
A
Scientists used a remote-control vehicle
to help them explore the volcano. It
took photos and collected bits of rock
and coral. Scientists say that we must
find ways to protect this place or we
will lose these sea creatures forever.
Which of these questions does the
selection answer?
A. What can we do to save the oceans?
B. Who were the scientist?
C. How did the scientists explore the
volcano?
C
King grew up in the southern part of
the United States. At that time, laws
treated African American people
differently from white people. African
Americans were forced to sit in the
back of buses. They also had to use
separate bathrooms and water
fountains.
The tops of the tallest trees in the rain
forest make up the emergent layer2.
Macaws live in this part of the rain
forest. Macaws are birds with long tails
and strong beaks. They belong to the
parrot family.
Which of these questions does the
selection answer?
A. What was life like in the southern
United States when King grew up?
B. Why were African Americans forced
to sit in the back of buses?
C. Who was King?
A
Which of these questions does the
selection answer?
A. What are the tallest trees in the
rainforest called?
B. Where do Macaws live?
C. What color are Macaws?
B
Make no bones about it! Without your
skeleton, you’d be as floppy as a wet
noodle. Your skeleton doesn’t just hold
you up; it also protects your organs and
works with your muscles so you can
move around.
Which of these questions does the
selection answer?
A. What are bones made of?
B. Why are you a floppy noodle?
C. What does your skeleton do?
C
An inventor creates things that help
make people’s lives easier. Benjamin
Franklin was an inventor. He invented a
new kind of stove, the lightning rod,
bifocal glasses, and much more. He also
created the first library in our country.
Benjamin Franklin was born 300 years
ago on January 17.
Which of these questions does the
selection answer?
A. What did Benjamin Franklin invent?
B. Who are all of the famous
inventors?
C. Where was the first library in our
country?
A
The dragonfly is one of the fastest
flying insects. Some dragonflies can
reach 35 miles per hour. This insect is
also acrobatic. It can fly backward and
turn around quickly. It can also hover,
or hang, in the air.
What is black and white and wet all
over? A penguin going for a swim!
Penguins are birds. They have feathers
and lay eggs. Unlike most birds, penguins
don’t fly. They use their wings as
flippers. Penguins flap their flippers to
swim underwater. Their webbed feet
help them steer.
Which of these questions does the
selection answer?
A. What is an acrobat?
B. How do dragonflies fly?
C. Why does a dragonfly hover?
B
Which of these questions does the
selection answer?
A. What are the names of all animals
that lay eggs?
B. What are eggs?
C. How do penguins use their wings?
C