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Genre—Nonfiction
• Nonfiction is writing about real people, places
and events. You encounter nonfiction when you
read a movie review, a newspaper editorial, or a
history textbook. Unlike fiction, nonfiction
contains mostly factual information, although the
writer selects the information in accordance with
his or her purpose. Nonfiction and informational
texts include a wide variety of writing, from
recipes to speeches to sports articles and
encyclopedias.
Sub-Genre Text Books
• Most text books are designed to teach a certain
subject to a certain group of students. Text
books follow a pattern, for example: History
books go in chronological order, in the order of
the time events happened. A Spanish Language
text book follows the order of the structure of
language. Every book is different but contains
the same text features, parts of your text book
that have been created to help you locate and
learn information.
Common text features
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Table of Contents
Headings
Text Boxes
Bold, color, or
italicized words
• Glossary and Index
• Additional resources
• Text boxes and Fun
Facts
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Photographs
Zoom-ins
Cut-aways
Captions
Labels
Lines and arrows
Maps
Charts and Diagrams
Heading
Headings alert
readers to what the
upcoming information
is going to be about.
• Dreams of a Better Life
The people who came to Ellis Island were from many different places. They
came from small villages and large cities all over the world. At first, most
immigrants came from Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia. Then people from
other European countries started to arrive.
Most of the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island were poor. They had saved
for months and years to buy their boat tickets to the United States. They were
willing to give up their homes and everything they had.
Photographs
Captions
Is this snake staring at you? Snakes do not have eyelids like humans.
Instead, they have clear scales that protect their eyes and allow them to see.
Cut away
Zoom
From this zoomed in photograph, we can see that tarantulas
have tiny hairs all over their body.
Tables
• Identity Crisis: Dolphin or Porpoise?
What is the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise! "Dolphin" usually
refers to the specific group of
small, toothed cetaceans in the family Delphinidae. There are over 30 species
of true dolphins, including
familiar species like the bottlenose, spinner, and spotted dolphins. Although the
largest members of this
group are commonly called whales because of their size, they are actually most
closely related to other
dolphins. The large dolphins include killer whales and pilot whales.
"Porpoise" refers to six species in the family Phocoenidae. All porpoises are
relatively small by cetacean
standards, measuring 7 feet (2 meters) or less as adults.
The notable differences between dolphins and porpoises are these:
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Dolphins
Always have cone—shaped teeth
Usually have a beak
Usually have a hooked or curved
dorsal fin (some have no dorsal fin)
Porpoises
Always have cone—shaped teeth
Usually have a beak
Usually have a dorsal fin shape like a
triangle (some have no dorsal fin)
Diagrams
Maps
• Harriett Tubman’s Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman was a runaway
slave from Maryland who led
others to freedom. Over the
course of 10 years, and at great
personal risk, she led hundreds
of slaves to freedom along the
Underground Railroad, a secret
network of safe houses where
runaway slaves could stay on
their journey north to freedom.
Labels with lines or Arrows
Body of a Shark
Text Features work together with the
author’s words to increase a readers
understanding of the information.
The earth consists of several layers. The three main layers are the
core, the
mantle and the crust. The core is the inner part of the earth, the crust is
the
outer part and between them is the mantle. The earth is surrounded by
the
atmosphere. Till this moment it hasn't been possible to take a look
inside the
earth because the current technology doesn't allow it. Therefore all
kinds of
research had to be done to find out, out of which material the earth
consists,
what different layers there are and which influence those have (had) on
the
earth's surface. This research is called seismology.
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Examples of three helpful text features on
one page.
Layers of Earth
The earth consists of several layers. The three main layers are the core, the
mantle and the crust. The core is the inner part of the earth, the crust is the
outer part and between them is the mantle. The earth is surrounded by the
atmosphere. Till this moment it hasn't been possible to take a look inside the
earth because the current technology doesn't allow it. Therefore all kinds of
research had to be done to find out, out of which material the earth consists,
what different layers there are and which influence those have (had) on the
earth's surface. This research is called seismology.
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Source Page:
• http://www.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/WalnutGrov
eES/misc/Text%20Features.pdf
Thanks to Robin Davidson and Anna Mary
Smith!
Remember Text Features are our
friends because…..
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They help us learn vocabulary
They help us visualize
They help us understand main ideas
They help us understand data through
graphs, charts and maps
5. They help us gather information