Literature

READING WORKSHOP 2

Skill Lesson

Using Text

Features

Learn It!

What Is It? As you learned in Unit 1, text features

are special parts of the text that aren’t in the regular

paragraphs of the selection. The text features you’ll

often see include:

• photographs, drawings, and maps


• footnotes and side notes


• headings or leads


• graphic organizers, such as charts

Skills Focus

You will practice using these skills when you

read the following selections:

• “Conserving Resources,” p. 560


• “There Will Come Soft Rains,” p. 568

Reading

• Using text features

Literature

• Understanding concept and
  definition

Vocabulary

• Recognizing suffixes


• Academic Vocabulary:
  features, concept

Writing/Grammar

• Recognizing noun,
  adjective, and adverb
  clauses as parts
  of speech

Analyzing Cartoons

The illustration in the girl’s book is

a text feature. Text features show

or tell what people, places, events,

and things are like.

Academic Vocabulary

features (FEE churz) n. special qualities, parts, or sections

556 UNIT 5

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Objectives (pp. 556–557)

Reading Use text features: map,

heading, footnote, photograph