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Look back in your magazine. Check off each feature you find.

From the May/June 2023 Issue
Common Core Standards
  • RF.1.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words RI.1.5 Know and use text features to locate key facts or information in a text R1.1.6 Distinguish between information provided by pictures and the words in a text
TEKS Standards
  • English Language Arts
    (9) Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts—genres. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts. The student is expected to: (D) recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including: (ii) features and simple graphics to locate or gain information.

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Headlines are near the top of the page. They say what the story is about.

Find this one.

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Maps show where something is. Find this one.

Inky Illustration by Becky Davies

Drawings show what something looks like. Find this one. 

NASA

Astronauts floating in space

Captions tell about a picture. Find this one.

Jeff Rotman/NPL/Minden Pictures

Labels point out part of a picture. Find this one.

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