This Hunting for Text Features Worksheet is designed to guide students in exploring and identifying various text features within a chosen book. The worksheet provides a structured format for students to record their findings.
Purpose:
- Enhance Text Feature Recognition: The primary goal of this worksheet is to help students become familiar with different text features commonly found in books, such as images, labels, titles, captions, bold print, tables of contents, headings, indexes, and glossaries.
- Develop Active Reading Skills: By actively searching for and analyzing these features, students engage more deeply with the text and improve their reading comprehension.
- Understand Text Organization: Recognizing text features enables students to understand how information is organized and presented within a book, making it easier to locate and interpret specific details.
Worksheet Structure:
The worksheet includes a table where students can record their observations about each text feature. For each feature, there are prompts or questions to guide their analysis:
- Image: Students describe the visual content of an image.
- Labels: Students identify the explanatory text accompanying an image.
- Title Page: Students note the elements present on the title page, such as the title, author, and publisher.
- Caption: Students write down the descriptive text accompanying an image or illustration.
- Bold Print: Students identify a word or phrase emphasized in bold typeface.
- Table of Contents: Students record the headings and page numbers listed in the table of contents.
- Heading: Students identify one of the headings within the book’s chapters or sections.
- Index: Students note the last word listed in the book’s index.
- Glossary: Students write down the first definition provided in the glossary.
By completing this worksheet, students gain a practical understanding of how text features contribute to the overall meaning and structure of a book.
