Informational Text Features Part 3

Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

3

Overview

The teacher will use this Google Slides presentation to review each of the text features. Afterward, the students will read an article and identify and label specific text features. For the final assignment, the student will use all that they learned to answer text feature questions about the article they read. 

This activity was created as a result of the ALEX Resource Development Summit.

Phase

After/Explain/Elaborate
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 3

ELA21.3.23

Identify and use text features in informational passages to locate information.

UP:ELA21.3.23

Vocabulary

  • Text features
  • Locate
  • Informational passage
  • Identify

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Informational passages often include text features that can be used to locate information within the text.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify text features in informational passages, such as headings, photographs, illustrations, labels, charts, graphs, legends.
  • Use text features to locate information within an informational passage.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Informational passages have predictable features that can be used to locate important information within the text.
  • Text features that are often used in informational text include headings, photographs, illustrations, labels, charts, graphs, and legends.
  • Using text features helps support their overall comprehension.

Learning Objectives

Students will identify and interpret text features and explain how illustrations contribute to the meaning of the text. 

Activity Details

  1. The teacher will open the Text Features Assignment Google Slideshow.
  2. The teacher will then review the text features with the students discussing each one before their final activity.  
  3. The teacher will let the students know that they will be reading the article 'Wild, Wild Weather."
  4. After passing out the article the students will partner up to read and identify text features and illustrations by labeling them on the article.
  5. After the students read and label the article they will answer the questions on the back of the article. 

Assessment Strategies

The teacher will look through each student's articles and answers to verify if the students properly identified and interpreted the text features. 

Background / Preparation

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Learning Activity (After)

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