Nonfiction Features

In a small reading group some students were focused on learning different nonfiction features and what their purposes were. Everyday we would begin our reading by skimming through the text on a scavenger hunt looking for those features. We would make lists and explain how each feature worked. By the end of the week reading and reviewing the text, we tested our memories and wrote the feature lists on our own. Some of the features we focused on were: the title, headings, bullets, captions, glossary, index, map, and table of contents.