Lesson Plan
Learning About Text Features
In this lesson, students will read text features and discuss how each text feature relates to the main idea of a nonfiction text. Use a stand alone activity or a support for the Examining the Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text lesson.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Examining Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Examining Author's Purpose in a Nonfiction Text lesson plan.
Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to use text features to identify the main purpose of a text.
Language
Students will be able to explain information and illustrations from a nonfiction book with grade level words and phrases using sentence frames and question stems.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Project the Search for Nonfiction Text Features worksheet on the whiteboard.
- Ask a student volunteer to explain what nonfiction means. Clarify that nonfiction books or texts are about real topics.
- Explain that nonfiction text features are the parts of a nonfiction book that provide us with additional information to help us understand the main idea, or the point the author wants the reader to understand. Clarify that the main idea of the text or book is a sentence, while the topic is a word or phrase that explains what the book is about. Example topics might be bees, whales, or spiders.
- Read through the Search for Nonfiction Text Features worksheet, and explain that today students will be searching in nonfiction books at their reading level for some of the nonfiction text features listed on the worksheet. Circle the following words in the left column of the worksheet: photograph, bold print, labels, captions.