Agenda 9/8 Expectations/

Reading and Interest Inventory (10-15)

Text Features Beezlebufo Activity

(10-15) Power Point on Text

Features (10) If time: Featureless

Text Articles

When you come in:

1. Pick up your comment card from side cabinet.

2. Please find your new seat.

3. Write down your agenda.

4. Begin to fill out Interest Inventory .

Expectations

Finish reading inventory. My Job/Your Job

What is expected of me? What is expected of you? Let’s decide!

In your groups, come up with 3 expectations you have of me and yourself. I’ll do the same.

Democracy, not a dictatorship—but Ms. Haynes and I have veto power.

New Procedures

In addition to writing your agenda, when you come in: Find your comment card Read agenda / Follow instructions on

Power Point Get ready to work!

Late Work

I will only accept 4 assignments late for partial credit (Up to 80%)

Ask for help before it’s due! (I don’t bite.)

I’ll keep due dates on the board.

Text Features

QUIZ: Read the Beelzebufo article. Be ready to answer questions for a quiz. You only have 3 minutes to read! GO GO GO!

Just Kidding

What makes this article difficult to comprehend?

Compare the two articles. What features could have helped your reading if you were quizzed?

With your group, discuss and jot down your answers in your notes.

Text Features as Tools

Just like a surgeon uses a scalpel as a tool, text features are tools for readers.

Would you want an untrained surgeon to use a scalpel on you?

Just like a surgeon needs to know how to use a scalpel, you need to learn how to use text structures.

Pssst, that was

an analog

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Text Features Exploration

Look at your college textbook on your table. Identify the following features.

Preface (if you have one) Headings/Subheadings Index Glossary (if you have one) Boldface type / Italicized type Table of Contents Sidebars Graphs/Pictures Diagrams Captions Footnotes

1.What are these features? Where can you find them?

2.What are they used for? How do you think these features would help you if you had to read this text?

Text Features Exploration

Preface (if you have one)

Headings/Subheadings Index Glossary (if you have

one) Boldface type /

Italicized type Table of Contents Sidebars Graphs/Pictures

Diagrams Captions Footnotes

1. What are these features? Where can you find them?

2. What is the purpose of each feature? How do you think these features would help you if you had to read this text?

3. If you don’t have a feature in your text, does it make it more difficult to understand? How?

Preface

A statement at the front of the book by the book’s author or editor, explaining its purpose and expressing appreciation for help received from others.

Can help you understand context.

Headings/Subheadings

Heading—Announces the topics that will be covered, a line of text to indicate what the passage below it is about

Subheading—given to a smaller subsection within a larger piece of writing

Headings/Subheadings help you know what to focus on.

Gives an organizational structure.

Index

Alphabetical list of topics included in the book and their corresponding page numbers; found in very back.

Useful to find exact topics in the text.

Very helpful for research!

Glossary

Alphabetical list of key terms and definitions related to a subject.

Great as a reference if you do not understand a term.

Boldface/Italicized Type

Boldface and italicized indicate important information

Slow down and pay attention to these.

Table of Contents

A list of the parts of a book or document; placed at the front of the book, it’s organized in the order in which the parts appear.

How would you use a table of contents differently than an index?

Sidebar

Boxed sections off to the side containing interesting, related information that can stand on its own.

Helps readers understand context.

Graphs

Graphs are visual comparisons of data and information in a bar/pie/line format.

Help conceptualize data.

Charts• Tables are summaries of facts or data

written in columns or rows.• Charts are visual representations of

quantities or results. Class Period Number of

Students Falling Asleep

1 22/3 54 1.235 2/3

Captions

Text describing the contents of a picture, graph, or chart.

Footnotes

• Footnotes help readers understand confusing parts of texts or unfamiliar allusions.