Harcourt Journeys:
Comprehension Skills
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Text and Graphic Features:
Part 1: PowerPoint Lesson
Part 2: Projectable 14.2
Part 3: Practice Book Page 157
Practice Book Page 158
Part 4: Leveled Practice Page 23
Leveled Practice Page 24
Leveled Practice Page 17
Leveled Practice Page 18
Part 5: Adapted Worksheets
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Unit 3: Lesson 14
Text & Graphic Features
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Part 1: Introduce
Comprehension
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Today, we are going to
learn about Text and
Graphic Features.
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Click on the link to watch
the Brain Pop Jr. Video:
http://www.brainpopjr.com/readingandwriting/
readingskills/readingnonfiction/preview.weml
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Click on the following PPT to
view presentation:
WHAT ARE TEXT FEATURES?
Text features are an
important feature to any
reading. While you are
reading, do you see titles,
charts,
photos,
captions,
headlines, bold or italicized
print? THOSE ARE TEXT
FEATURES!
During
the
reading
process, you will use the text
features to locate essential
information from the text.
The more times you process
the information given, the
more likely you are going to
retain the information.
If you learn how to
identify text features and use
them prior to reading a text,
you will improve your
comprehension.
TYPES OF INFORMATIONAL TEXT FEATURES
This science textbook contains of
variety of text features to help the
reader understand the content.
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Print Features
Organizational Aids
Graphic Aids
Illustrations
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view presentation:
Getting the Most
from What You
Read
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Part 2: Projectables
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Projectable 14.2
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Part 3: Guided Practice
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Turn your Practice Book to
page 157.
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Now turn your Practice
Book to page 158.
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Part 4: Independent
Practice
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See Handout; page 23 in
Grab and Go
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See Handout; page 24 in
Grab and Go
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See Handout; page 17 in
Grab and Go
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See Handout; page 18 in
Grab and Go
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