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Exploring Informational Texts

Student reading informational text with text features highlighted

📚 Part 1: Text Features and Main Ideas

1. Which text feature helps you quickly find information about a specific topic?

Pictures

Headings

Page numbers

The author's name

2. What is the main idea of a text?

The first sentence

What the whole text is mostly about

The most interesting detail

The last paragraph

3. Check all the text features that can help you understand an informational text:

Headings

Pictures with captions

Bold words

Table of contents

Glossary

4. When you read an informational text, you should ask questions to help you understand it better.

True

False

✏️ Part 2: Reading Comprehension Practice

5. Read this paragraph and answer the questions below:

"Dolphins are amazing ocean animals. They are mammals, which means they breathe air and feed milk to their babies. Dolphins are very smart and can learn tricks. They live in groups called pods and use clicking sounds to talk to each other."

a) What is the main idea of this paragraph?
b) Write one key detail that supports the main idea:
6. Write a question you could ask about dolphins after reading this text:
7. If you wanted to learn more about what dolphins eat, which text feature would be most helpful?

A picture of a dolphin

A heading that says "What Dolphins Eat"

The page number

The title of the book

🎯 Part 3: Apply Your Skills

8. Think about an informational text you have read recently. Complete the sentences below:

The main idea of the text was: ________________________________

_________________________________________________________

One important detail was: ____________________________________

_________________________________________________________

A text feature that helped me understand the text was: ________________

_________________________________________________________

9. Write one question you would ask before reading a text about "How Plants Grow":
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