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Grade 2 English Language Arts · Level 4, Understand informational texts, text features, reasons, and sources; gather information for a purpose.

Use Text Features to Find Information

Use headings, captions, bold print, glossaries, indexes, menus/icons, charts, graphs, and other text features to locate or clarify information.

How the lesson starts: Use Text Features to Find Information

1. Pip the bookworm

   Meet Pip. Pip is a real bookworm! Pip lives inside a big book about sea animals. Pip wants facts fast. So Pip uses text features, like signs in a book.

2. Features and their jobs

   Here are Pip's favorite signs. The title names the whole book. A heading tells what one part is about. A caption tells about a picture. A bold word is important. The glossary tells what hard words mean.

3. Pip picks a feature

   Pip wants to know what a picture shows. Which feature helps? The title? No, that names the whole book. The glossary? No, that's for words. The caption! It tells about the picture.