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Nonfiction Text Features Lesson Plan Revised

The document discusses a lesson on identifying text features in non-fiction books. The lesson aims to help students understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction, and identify various non-fiction text features such as the title page, table of contents, index, glossary, headings, keywords, graphs, photographs, illustrations, captions, diagrams, maps, and timelines. During the lesson, the teacher will use a PowerPoint to introduce each non-fiction text feature and its purpose. Students will then complete a handout to practice identifying these features.

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Nonfiction Text Features Lesson Plan Revised

The document discusses a lesson on identifying text features in non-fiction books. The lesson aims to help students understand the difference between fiction and non-fiction, and identify various non-fiction text features such as the title page, table of contents, index, glossary, headings, keywords, graphs, photographs, illustrations, captions, diagrams, maps, and timelines. During the lesson, the teacher will use a PowerPoint to introduce each non-fiction text feature and its purpose. Students will then complete a handout to practice identifying these features.

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Non-Fiction Text Features

Estimated Time: 45 minutes


AASL Standards
I.A.1: Learners display curiosity and initiative by: Formulating questions about a

personal interest or a curricular topic.

I.A.2: Learners display curiosity and initiative by: Recalling prior and background

knowledge as context for new meaning.

I.D.1: Learners participate in an ongoing inquiry-based process by: Continually


seeking knowledge.
Essential Question
How do I identify and use text features to locate key facts and information?

Learning Objectives
Students will:

 observe the difference between a non-fiction book and a fiction book.


 discover the various features found in many non-fiction books.
Materials

 Promethean Board
 Projector
 Computer
 PowerPoint: Non-fiction Text Features
 Handout: Identifying Non-fiction Text Features
Teach

The media specialist will open the non-fiction text features PowerPoint. She will then
ask students the following question:

 What is the difference between a fiction and a non-fiction Book?

Students will be given the opportunity to answer the question before the media
specialist explains to them that a fiction book is not true (make believe) and a non-
fiction book is true and contains factual information.

Media specialist will ask students the question below:

 Did you know that there are many features within a non-fiction book?

She will then go through the slides and introduce each non-fiction text feature, its
purpose, and its importance. At the end of the lesson, students will complete the
handout entitled “Identifying Non-fiction Text Features.”

Closing

Students will answer the following questions:

 The _________________ page tells the title and publisher information.


o title
 The _________________ lists the chapters or topics in a book and the page
number they begin on.
o table of contents
 The _________________ page is an alphabetized list of names, places, and
subjects that are in a book. It gives the page or pages on which each item is
mentioned and is usually located in the back of a book.
o index
 A _________________ is a list of words with their definitions. It is often placed at
the back of a book.
o glossary
 A _________________ announces the topic that will be covered.
o heading
 Words in the text that are important are known as _________________. They can
be bold, italics, or color.
o keywords
 _________________ are used to compare different facts.
o Graphs
 A _________________ is an image taken with a camera.
o photograph
 An _________________ is usually hand drawn.
o illustration
 Information under a photograph that tells more information about the picture is
known as the _________________.
o caption
 A _________________ shows the parts of an object.
o diagram
 _________________ show you where something is located.
o Maps
 A _________________ is a diagram that shows events in chronological order.
o timeline

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