Comprehension Toolkit

Today we identified informational text features and learned their purposes.


We also recognized signals from our inner voice that tells us we are learning something new as we read non-fiction text.


The boys and girls browsed through some non-fiction books.





As they browsed, they looked for some non-fiction features: captions, titles, headings, bold faced words, diagrams, labels, maps, close-up pictures, table of contents, etc.


They used post it notes to mark the features they found in their books.

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