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Text Features Exploration and Expectations

This agenda focuses on exploring various text features and setting expectations for the class. It includes activities such as reading an article, identifying text features in a college textbook, and discussing their purpose and usefulness. The agenda also covers late work policies and emphasizes the importance of asking for help.

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Text Features Exploration and Expectations

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  1. Agenda 9/8 When you come in: Pick up your comment card from side cabinet. Please find your new seat. Write down your agenda. Begin to fill out Interest Inventory . • Expectations/Reading and Interest Inventory (10-15) • Text Features • Beezlebufo Activity (10-15) • Power Point on Text Features (10) • If time: Featureless Text Articles

  2. Expectations • Finish reading inventory. • My Job/Your Job • What is expected of me? What is expected of you? Let’s decide! • In your groups, come up with 3 expectations you have of me and yourself. I’ll do the same. • Democracy, not a dictatorship—but Ms. Haynes and I have veto power.

  3. New Procedures • In addition to writing your agenda, when you come in: • Find your comment card • Read agenda / Follow instructions on Power Point • Get ready to work!

  4. Late Work • I will only accept 4 assignments late for partial credit (Up to 80%) • Ask for help before it’s due! (I don’t bite.) • I’ll keep due dates on the board.

  5. Text Features • QUIZ: • Read the Beelzebufo article. • Be ready to answer questions for a quiz. • You only have 3 minutes to read! • GO GOGO!

  6. Just Kidding • What makes this article difficult to comprehend? • Compare the two articles. What features could have helped your reading if you were quizzed? • With your group, discuss and jot down your answers in your notes.

  7. Text Features as Tools Pssst, that was an analogy • Just like a surgeon uses a scalpel as a tool, text features are tools for readers. • Would you want an untrained surgeon to use a scalpel on you? • Just like a surgeon needs to know how to use a scalpel, you need to learn how to use text structures.

  8. Text Features Exploration • Look at your college textbook on your table. • Identify the following features. • Preface (if you have one) • Headings/Subheadings • Index • Glossary (if you have one) • Boldface type / Italicized type • Table of Contents • Sidebars • Graphs/Pictures Diagrams • Captions • Footnotes What are these features? Where can you find them? What are they used for? How do you think these features would help you if you had to read this text?

  9. Text Features Exploration • Preface (if you have one) • Headings/Subheadings • Index • Glossary (if you have one) • Boldface type / Italicized type • Table of Contents • Sidebars • Graphs/Pictures Diagrams • Captions • Footnotes • What are these features? Where can you find them? • What is the purpose of each feature? How do you think these features would help you if you had to read this text? • If you don’t have a feature in your text, does it make it more difficult to understand? How?

  10. Preface • A statement at the front of the book by the book’s author or editor, explaining its purpose and expressing appreciation for help received from others. • Can help you understand context.

  11. Headings/Subheadings • Heading—Announces the topics that will be covered, a line of text to indicate what the passage below it is about • Subheading—given to a smaller subsection within a larger piece of writing • Headings/Subheadings help you know what to focus on. • Gives an organizational structure.

  12. Index • Alphabetical list of topics included in the book and their corresponding page numbers; found in very back. • Useful to find exact topics in the text. • Very helpful for research!

  13. Glossary • Alphabetical list of key terms and definitions related to a subject. • Great as a reference if you do not understand a term.

  14. Boldface/Italicized Type • Boldface and italicized indicate important information • Slow down and pay attention to these.

  15. Table of Contents • A list of the parts of a book or document; placed at the front of the book, it’s organized in the order in which the parts appear. • How would you use a table of contents differently than an index?

  16. Sidebar • Boxed sections off to the side containing interesting, related information that can stand on its own. • Helps readers understand context.

  17. Graphs • Graphs are visual comparisons of data and information in a bar/pie/line format. • Help conceptualize data.

  18. Charts • Tables are summaries of facts or data written in columns or rows. • Charts are visual representations of quantities or results.

  19. Captions • Text describing the contents of a picture, graph, or chart.

  20. Footnotes • Footnotes help readers understand confusing parts of texts or unfamiliar allusions.

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