Nonfiction Text Features

This week we started to look at the different text features that make nonfiction books special. Over the next 2 weeks we will be looking at one text feature each day and learning the importance of it. Everyone started out making the cover for their books:

On Monday we learned about headings. We read some nonfiction books and looked for examples of headings in the text. Then, we added this page to our text feature book:

On Tuesday, we talked about the importance of labels in nonfiction text. We read some books and looked for different examples. Then we added the next page to our book:

On Wednesday, we looked at captions in nonfiction text. We talked about how they are different than labels, and looked for examples in our daily reading.

On Thursday, we talked about a feature we are pretty familiar with: maps! We looked for examples in our nonfiction books, then added a page to our text feature book:

We ended the week by talking about bold words in the text. We found some examples in our daily reading and added this page to our book:

Next week we are going to continue looking at different features of nonfiction text to finish up our books then we are going to start learning how we can use all these important text features to help us research and find information.