Nonfiction Text Features Continued

This week we continued looking at different nonfiction text features. Each day, Monday through Thursday, we talked about a different feature, found it in some nonfiction books, then made a page for our text features books. We looked at the glossary, table of contents, index, and charts and graphs.

Then, on Friday we put all our knowledge to use in a fun assessment. We looked up an animal we already knew a lot about (pigs - so the kids wouldn't have to hold too much new knowlege in their heads and could focus on the task at hand) on Pebblego.com. After we read about pigs to refresh our memories, each student had to create a nonfiction paragraph about pigs that included some of our text features. I asked each student to include: a heading, a picture with at least 4 labels, a caption for the picture, 3-5 sentences about pigs, 2 or more bold words, and a glossary. This assessment really showed me who understood what each of the text features meant.