What’s on the Text Features poster
A 8-row table: Feature · What it does.
Non-fiction writers put information outside the paragraphs on purpose. Read those first.
- Title — names the whole topic
- Heading — names one section
- Bold word — flags a key term
- Caption — explains a picture
- Diagram / label — shows what words cannot
- Table — puts facts side by side
- Glossary — defines the hard words
- Index — tells you which page
Skimming the features first makes the paragraphs about half as hard.
Questions about the Text Features poster
- What’s on the Text Features poster?
- A 8-row table: Feature · What it does. Non-fiction writers put information outside the paragraphs on purpose. Read those first. Title — names the whole topic; Heading — names one section; Bold word — flags a key term; Caption — explains a picture; Diagram / label — shows what words cannot; Table — puts facts side by side; Glossary — defines the hard words; Index — tells you which page. Skimming the features first makes the paragraphs about half as hard.
- Who is the Text Features poster for?
- Text Features is filed under 3rd Grade (ages 8–9), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting literacy, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Text Features poster?
- Before reading a page, look only at the features. Predict what it is about. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Text Features belongs on the wall where that literacy work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Text Features?
- Working Out a New Word, Punctuating Speech and Using a Dictionary sit alongside Text Features in the 3rd Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Working Out a New WordPunctuating SpeechUsing a Dictionary
- Is the Text Features poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Text Features downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 3rd Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Text Features poster print at?
- Text Features is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Text Features loses nothing.Printing guide
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