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Find It,

Be a Feature Finder

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

From the December 2023/January 2024 Issue
Featured Skill: Text Features,
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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Maps show where something is. Find this one.

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Headings tell what a part of the text is about. Find this one. 

Courtesy of Ravensbeard Wildlife Center

Whooo was hiding in the tree? This little owl was.

Captions tell about a picture. Find this one.

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

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